C-09

Xavier Jouve 1, PhD, FCS 2 Copyright 2008-2011

To read carefully This questionnaire has been prepared with both verbal and nonverbal items. For practical reasons, only one try is accepted, please take your time to work, and submit your answers only after having given your best. In order to submit answers please use the computerized form available on Cogn-IQ.org. The two parts of the test are called Whats next? and Which word?, and both gather fifty items. Each one counts 1 point, and there is no disadvantage for wrong answers, therefore maximum possible raw scores for the parts and the composite scale are 50 and 100 respectively. Correct spelling of words in the verbal part is not mandatory as long as the word is still phonetically understandable. Questions are not arranged in ascending order of difficulty. In fact, items arrangement has been randomly executed. The first part is inspired by the EPC-L and EPC-C (Jouve, 2005a, 2005b). Problems have been carefully prepared in regard to the structural processes of those which shown the best psychometric properties. Please, do not use references or assistance. The use of any kind of reference aids is not allowed. Any assistance from other persons is prohibited. Taking the C-09 is completely free. However, if you appreciate it and would like to support all the work done to make it available, a PayPal donation to donation@cogn-iq.org would be more than welcome. Thank you so much in advance for your support! Moreover, to our knowledge, the C-09 is accepted in order to apply to the CIVIQ Society. If you wish to have your score confirmed to them, please send $20 by PayPal to donation@cerebrals.org. An official confirmation will be sent you instead of a simple email. This fee will then serve to cover the operating costs of both cogn-iq.org and cerebrals.org.

1 Psychometrician, author of the C-Level psychometric instrument called Epreuve de Performance Cognitive, published by ECPA (2005a, 2005b), the French branch of Pearson Education, Inc. 2 FCS: Founder, Cerebrals Society

Whats next? Although this part of the questionnaire is prepared with numbers, acquired knowledge in mathematics is reduced to bare minimum. Apart from primary-school level basic arithmetic, such as addition and subtraction, numbers are chiefly used as symbols and might have been replaced by drawings, or figures. These sequences involve induction, in other words, to find a specific rule and to generalize it. Difficulty mainly grows as a function of the number of rules to deal with in order to find missing elements.
Example: 1, 10, 100, (1000), (10000) 1. 1, 121, 12321, ( ?), ( ?) 2. 5, 454, 34543, ( ?), ( ?) 3. 12345, 12345, 14325, 54321, ( ?), ( ?) 4. 54321, 54321, 52341, ( ?), ( ?) 5. 725, 835, 945, 1055, ( ?), ( ?) 6. 220, 336, 440, 5510, ( ?), ( ?) 7. 12345, 66366, 121231212, 333333333, ( ?), ( ?) 8. 12345, 423, -12, ( ?) 9. 12, 1314, 13271329, ( ?) 10. 101, 110011, ( ?), ( ?) 11. 11, 102, 3002, 30005, ( ?), ( ?) 12. 77, 16.5, 1414, 33, 88888, ( ?), ( ?) 13. 1234, 2341, 4123, 1234, 3412, ( ?), ( ?) 14. 311165, 21143, 1121, 0, 2112, 43112, ( ?), ( ?) 15. 12345, 12345, 21354, 52341, 12345, 54321, ( ?), ( ?) 16. 2603, 2601, 5603, 5600, 8605, 8601, ( ?), ( ?) 17. 1230456, 7770111, 6539655, 11109930-1, ( ?), ( ?) 18. 81290-520, -4489504, 04139-3-4-8, ( ?), ( ?) 19. 12309107, 212, 4560182528, 4114, 7890274049, ( ?), ( ?) 20. 4220336, 4230236, 6320324, 4320326, ( ?) 21. 6230234, 6330224, 6320324, 4320326, ( ?) 22. 1, 22, 333, 4444, 55555, ( ?), ( ?) 23. 11, 2, 3333, 444, 555555, ( ?), ( ?) 24. 10, 120, 0333320, 0344400, 00555555600, ( ?), ( ?) 25. 11, 1, 0, -1, -11, ( ?), ( ?) 26. 7108119, 7018119, 9108117, ( ?), ( ?) 27. 2814, 28164, 83256, ( ?) 28. 34, 7, 36, -3, 38, 11, ( ?), ( ?) 29. 79, 2, 95, -4, 109, -1, ( ?), ( ?) 30. 151, 4, 116, 5, 171, 6, ( ?), ( ?) 31. 1, 2, 4, 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, 4, 8, 2.5, 5, ( ?) ( ?) 32. 1, 1.5, 3, 3, 6, 5, 10, 7.5, 15, 10.5, 21, ( ?), ( ?)

33. 1, 1.5, 3, 0, 0, 2, 4, -0.5, -1, 2.5, 5, ( ?), ( ?) 34. 3, 5, 38, 40, 3878, 3880, ( ?), ( ?) 35. 1, 2, 23, 25, 348, 351, ( ?), ( ?) 36. 0, 1, 1, -1, 0, 3, ( ?), ( ?) 37. 2704, 2702, 6708, 6705, 147048, 147044, ( ?), ( ?) 38. 87, 185, 1589, -2183, 2391, -7181, 1594, ( ?), ( ?) 39. 11, 33, 55, ( ?), ( ?) 40. 103, 3005, 50007, ( ?), ( ?) 41. 8751, 311, 1562, 98, 683, ( ?), ( ?) 42. 135790, 233, 112121, 55, 2332, ( ?), ( ?) 43. 9753, 7824, 1814106, 87, ( ?), ( ?), 44. 2, 7, 11, 1, 3, 11, 111, 2, 5, 18, 11111, 3, ( ?), ( ?) 45. 2, 187, 17, 7, 178, 27, 13, 170, 40, 20, 163, 54, 28, ( ?), ( ?) 46. 123456, 777, 494949, 131313, 333, ( ?), ( ?) 47. 13, 13, 1.45, 12, 12, 1.22, 10, 10, 1.01, 7, ( ?), ( ?) 48. 37, 49, 29, 37, 21, 25, 15, 19, ( ?), ( ?) 49. 19, 1058.5, 2117, 15760.5, 31521, ( ?), ( ?) 50. 17, 49, 298, 424.7, 41274, 3822, 715288, ( ?), ( ?)

Which word? The following questions are prepared to be as cross-cultural as possible. Nevertheless, Basic English proficiency is required. One has to find the word that corresponds to both the meaning and the given beginning letters. This task involves language development trait through lexical knowledge, long-term-memory and mental comparison. Difficulty grows as a function of the probability for vocabulary use: easier questions demand widely-used words while the harder asking for words requiring acquired savant knowledge.
Example: Which word, meaning to become different, begins with letters CH? Answer is Change

51. Which word, meaning to find attractive, begins with letters LI? 52. Which word, meaning process whereby people vote for a person or a party, begins with letters EL? 53. Which word, meaning philosophy of knowledge, begins with letters GN? 54. Which word, meaning motorcycle, begins with letters BI? 55. Which word, meaning very tall building, begins with letters SK? 56. Which word, meaning government by the people, begins with letters DE? 57. Which word, meaning public road in a city, begins with letters ST? 58. Which word, meaning to deviate from the truth, begins with letters EQ? 59. Which word, meaning the ultimate things, begins with letters ES? 60. Which word, meaning swift, begins with letters FA? 61. Which word, meaning systematic study of religions, begins with

letters TH? 62. Which word, meaning new word, begins with letters NE? 63. Which word, meaning system based on three parts, begins with letters TR? 64. Which word, meaning to take place, begins with letters HA? 65. Which word, giving the action in a sentence, begins with letters VE? 66. Which word, meaning quantity that has no limit, begins with letters IN? 67. Which word, meaning portion of a whole, begins with letters PA? 68. Which word, meaning identical, begins with letters SA? 69. Which word, meaning rule of the wealthy, begins with letters CH? 70. Which word, meaning the point at which an orbiting body is farthest from the Sun, begins with letters AP? 71. Which word, associated to black colour, meaning region of space resulting from the collapse of a star, begins with letters HO? 72. Which word, meaning positively charged elementary particle, begins with letters PR?

73. Which

word,

meaning

unit

composed

of

DNA

forming

part

of

chromosome, begins with letters GE? 74. Which word, meaning an apparently valid quantum relativity theory, begins with letters ST? 75. Which word, meaning theory of knowledge, begins with letters EP? 76. Which word, meaning theory of evolution by natural selection, begins with letters DA? 77. Which word, meaning emphasizing the functional relation between

parts and the whole, begins with letters HO? 78. Which word, meaning the major constituent of natural gas, begins with letters ME? 79. Which word, meaning the common non-metallic element that constitutes most of the atmosphere and which the boiling point is close to minus two hundred degrees Celsius, begins with letters NI? 80. Which word, meaning the particular appearance of the state of

illumination of a body, begins with letters PH? 81. Which word, meaning a proposition deducible from basic postulates, begins with letters TH? 82. Which word, meaning to acquire possession, begins with letters TA? 83. Which word, meaning to separate into parts, begins with letters DI? 84. Which word, meaning facing away from the axis of an organ or

organism, begins with letters AB? 85. Which word, meaning impairment of the ability to make decisions, begins with letters AB? 86. Which word, meaning study of bacteria, begins with letters BA? 87. Which word, meaning two hundredth anniversary, begins with letters BI? 88. Which word, meaning an artery that carries blood to the head, begins with letters CA? 89. Which word, while associated to word carpe, meaning seize the

pleasures of the moment, begins with letters DI? 90. Which word, meaning study of the origin and nature of the universe, begins with letters CO? 91. Which word, meaning any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue, begins with letters FO? 92. Which word, meaning one of four equal parts, begins with letters QU? 93. Which word, while associated to word change, meaning the transition between physical states of a fluid, begins with letters PH? 94. Which word, meaning a wide unbroken view in every direction, begins with letters PA?

95. Which

word,

meaning

story

about

mythical

events,

begins

with

letters LE? 96. Which word, meaning a person who guides others, begins with letters LE? 97. Which word, meaning an artistic form of auditory communication

incorporating tones in a structured and continuous manner, begins with letters MU? 98. Which word, meaning the science of matter and energy and their interactions, begins with letters PH? 99. Which word, meaning a psychotic illness and symptomized cognitive, by erratic and

behaviour,

withdrawal

from

reality,

conative

emotional deterioration, begins with letters SC? 100. Which word, meaning abnormally rapid heart beat, begins with letters TA?

Acknowledgments The author wishes to express sincere appreciation to Stevan Damjanovic, OCS 3, FSPE 4, for his support. Furthermore, the author would like to thank Marc Avedissian and Marc Gonzalez who kindly made helpful comments.

References Jouve, X. (2005a). Epreuve de Performance Cognitive, version Longue (EPC-L). Paris: Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Applique. Jouve, X. (2005b). Epreuve de Performance Cognitive, version Courte (EPC-C). Paris: Les Editions du Centre de Psychologie Applique.

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OCS: Officer, Cerebrals Society FSPE: Fellow, Society for Philosophical Enquiry

C-09 Raw Score to Ability Index (AI) 95% CI Equivalent in Adults 30 40 Years C-09 Raw Score AI Range Equivalent 90 154 161 80 144 152 70 136 144 60 129 137 50 121 129 40 114 121 30 106 114 20 98 106 10 89 97

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