The Fluid Intelligence Test (FIT) is designed to assess an individual's fluid intelligence—the ability to reason and solve novel problems, independent of acquired knowledge. The test focuses on mental processes such as abstract thinking, pattern recognition, and creative problem-solving.
This test aims to measure the cognitive abilities of test-takers by requiring them to navigate complex problems that integrate multiple data points, often involving gaps that they must fill to find a solution. The design of the test is structured to simulate real-world scenarios where reasoning, pattern recognition, and mental agility are required.
Additionally, the test assesses how prone the test-taker is to utilizing fluid intelligence, explores the comfort zone blocks that inhibit this, and how ego protection plays a role in rejecting adaptation. Crucially, the test is designed to trigger self-reflection, encouraging individuals to confront and overcome these blocks in order to enhance their cognitive flexibility and problem-solving skills.
The primary purposes of the Fluid Intelligence Test (FIT) are as follows:
- Assess Fluid Intelligence: The test evaluates an individual's capacity to adapt to new situations, think creatively, and solve complex problems that do not rely on prior knowledge.
- Foster Self-Reflection and Improvement: The test encourages individuals to reflect on their cognitive processes, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses in reasoning and problem-solving. By forcing individuals to engage with their inner thought processes, it helps them recognize and overcome their comfort zone blocks and ego defenses, which are often barriers to fluid thinking.
- Provide Insight into Cognitive Function: By evaluating the test-taker's ability to process and synthesize information, the test provides insights into how they approach problem-solving, revealing patterns in their thinking.
- Assess Adaptation Resistance: The test gauges how prone a test-taker is to utilizing fluid intelligence. It explores the degree to which the individual might resist adaptation and innovative problem-solving due to comfort zone blocks or ego defense mechanisms.
- Guide Educational Development: By identifying areas for growth, the test can inform learning strategies and cognitive development programs.
- Tailor Problem Complexity for Age Groups: The test adapts to different age groups by adjusting the complexity of problems, ensuring it is functional across a wide range of cognitive stages.
Test-takers are presented with problems in the form of a narrative scenario, which is designed to simulate a real-world investigation or situation. These scenarios are connected by common themes and require the test-taker to detect patterns, analyze data, and fill in gaps to find a solution.
The scenarios contain direct and indirect clues, data points, and events that must be connected to build meaningful concepts. Each scenario encourages creative thinking, pattern detection, and mental deduction.
The test consists of several stages designed to evaluate different cognitive functions:
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Stage 1: Creativity Analysis
Test-takers use the clues provided in the scenario to form a theory that ties various elements together. This stage encourages creative thinking and hypothesis formation. -
Stage 2: Communication and Information Conduction
Test-takers explain their solution to different audiences, requiring the ability to adapt their explanations for simplicity (children) or technicality (adults). -
Stage 3: Bridging
At this stage, the test-taker bridges gaps between different pieces of information, connecting seemingly unrelated events or clues to form a cohesive narrative. -
Stage 4: Deduction and Solution Synthesis
The test-taker refines their hypothesis by filtering out incorrect assumptions, streamlining their ideas, and focusing on the most probable solution. -
Stage 5: Optimization and Refinement
The final stage involves optimizing the solution for practicality, ensuring that the proposed solution is feasible and addresses the issue at hand in a real-world context.
The comfort zone blocks refer to mental barriers that individuals create to protect their ego, particularly when faced with challenges that force them to adapt or change their current understanding. These blocks manifest as resistance to new approaches, fear of failure, or clinging to outdated methods. The test provides insights into how these ego defense mechanisms affect problem-solving abilities.
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Comfort Zone Blocks: These are typically mental barriers that prevent the test-taker from fully utilizing their fluid intelligence. They arise when the individual is faced with unfamiliar problems or when solutions challenge their existing beliefs or knowledge. In this context, individuals may reject innovative solutions or avoid necessary adaptation, which can hinder the overall quality of their responses.
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Ego Protection: This aspect of the test reveals how the test-taker's ego might prevent them from adopting new strategies or solutions. The more an individual resists adaptation, the more likely it is that their cognitive flexibility will be restricted, and their problem-solving may become less efficient. The test assesses the degree of this resistance, offering insights into how an individual might benefit from confronting and overcoming these defense mechanisms.
One of the core goals of the Fluid Intelligence Test (FIT) is to trigger self-reflection in the test-taker. By confronting individuals with problems that challenge their usual ways of thinking, the test encourages them to pause and examine their own cognitive processes. This reflection allows individuals to recognize when they are operating within their comfort zone or when they are holding onto outdated methods due to ego protection.
This self-reflection phase is essential in helping individuals:
- Identify the barriers that prevent them from fully utilizing their fluid intelligence.
- Acknowledge when they are resisting adaptation due to ego defense mechanisms.
- Gain greater self-awareness and make conscious efforts to step outside of their comfort zones to solve problems more effectively.
The test thus serves not only as an assessment tool but as a developmental instrument, guiding individuals toward greater cognitive flexibility and self-improvement.
The complexity of the problems and scenarios can be adapted to suit different age groups, ensuring that the test measures fluid intelligence effectively across cognitive development stages.
- Children (ages 6-12) will be presented with simpler problems that involve basic pattern recognition and creativity, using concrete examples and straightforward data.
- Teens (ages 13-18) will face moderately complex problems, requiring a deeper level of reasoning, deduction, and synthesis of information.
- Adults (ages 19+) will be tested with highly complex scenarios that involve abstract thinking, multiple variables, and real-world problem-solving skills.
The formula used to calculate the score will adjust based on the age group, ensuring that the test remains fair and accurate across all participants.
Before administering the test, ensure that the test-taker is familiar with the problem-solving structure and the expectations. Provide a brief overview of the test stages and the types of problems they will encounter.
The test should be presented in the form of a ticket template present in Ticket.odt that includes:
- The problem scenario.
- Key background information (history, clues, data).
- Direct and indirect hints for the analyst.
- Instructions for solving the problem and filling the gaps for the analyst.
For the analyst:
- The analyst recieves a type 2 ticket
- Your ticket contains a separate guide that provides the answers, gaps, solutions, and an outline of the expected cognitive processes.
- The ticket will assist you in analyzing the test-taker’s reasoning, pattern detection, and overall cognitive approach but should not be used as a comparative grading tool or it would compromise the tests results and overall integrity.
- You must generate a problem by using the prompt provided in the Prompt_for_problems.odt file
- The prompt contains all necessary information in terms of context about the test and problem
- structure as it is intended to not allow flaws that could compromise the outcome of the test.
- WARNING: Make sure to look at the problem before presenting it as theres a possibility of missing parts.
- If that would be the case, you can look at the FluidIQ.odt file and modify the prompt accordingly in order to achieve a proper problem.
For the test-taker:
- The test-taker recieves a type 1 ticket
- Your ticket contains the problem scenario and the data without answers or solutions.
- Your task is to fill the gaps, identify patterns, and synthesize the information to find a cohesive solution.
After the test is completed, you will use a set of grading criteria to evaluate the test-taker’s performance. The following factors will be assessed:
- Creativity and Innovation: How effectively did the test-taker come up with new ideas and connections?
- Pattern Recognition: How well did they identify patterns in the data provided?
- Cognitive Synthesis: How well did the test-taker synthesize information from multiple sources to form a cohesive solution?
- Deductive Reasoning: How effectively did the test-taker filter out incorrect assumptions and narrow down their hypothesis?
- Practical Feasibility: How practical and realistic was the proposed solution?
- Adaptation and Fluid Intelligence Utilization: How well did the test-taker utilize fluid intelligence and confront comfort zone blocks or ego defense mechanisms that hindered their problem-solving process?
The Fluid Intelligence Test (FIT) is a tool designed to assess cognitive abilities, promote self-reflection, and help people understand their mental processes. By using this test, you can gain valuable insights into how people think, reason, and solve problems, helping to foster personal and cognitive development across different age groups. Additionally, i intended for test to provides a unique perspective on how ego defense mechanisms and comfort zone blocks can impact cognitive flexibility and adaptation, allowing for more targeted interventions and growth strategies. I made the test both as a fun project with the intention of learning alot about intelligence as well as creating a new concept for a test that actualy has real time problem solving instilled in them rather than the typical pattern recognition only based tests. I believe that those tests arent that adaptive which might results into entirely fucked up results. For more detailed instructions on how to administer the test and evaluate results, refer to the provided test guides and resources.
I have been interested in psychology since I was young, and this is the first project of such nature that I’ve decided to make available. I am passionate about self-growth, the subconscious, and, in general, dismantling the human psyche. My goal is to build tools and resources that will allow people to grow as well in my free time.
The world we live in currently is full of consumerism and a lack of critical thought, especially among young individuals. This not only prevents them from processing their own identity, integrity, cognition, and desires but also turns them away from their future. I believe that not having a vision as a young person will not only prevent one from potentially achieving a state of mental peace, but also lead to a harmful form of hedonism and distractions. These distractions may later accumulate subconsciously, resulting in strong interpersonal problems, projection, and aggression due to a lack of self-understanding and an overall disinterest in the paths we choose.
For anyone reading this, I hope this project provides you with a glimpse of your own shining light, and I sincerely hope you achieve everything you have dreamed about. Creating such things is a form of self-expression, art, creativity, and care. It’s not only a way of understanding others but also gaining more knowledge and insights about myself and those around me.
Peace out, and to anyone who reads this, whether they are interested in using the project or not: Believe in yourself, and you will achieve what you intend (but you have to put in the work, and there’s no way around that fact).
Peace out.
Prompt uploaded ✅ If you feel confident enough, you can try comming up with problems on your own. Ticket templates uploaded ✅
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Not a Substitute for Professional Evaluation: The Fluid Intelligence Test is intended for self-reflection, personal growth, and research purposes. It is not a substitute for professional cognitive or psychological evaluation.
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Use at Your Own Risk: If you choose to use the test for professional evaluation or as a basis for decision-making, you acknowledge that both test users and analysts take full responsibility for the consequences. The test is not designed to offer definitive diagnoses or professional conclusions and should not be used as such.