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What Solving Puzzles Reveals, and What They Don’t

Three quick puzzles - math, analogies, and visual patterns - explore how different kinds of thinking connect. Reflect on your performance and feelings to learn what psychology says about intelligence and test anxiety. This interactive activity invites you to solve three types of puzzles - math problems, analogies, and matrix patterns - and then reflect on how you felt while working through them. You’ll see how performance across very different tasks tends to correlate, what that tells us about the construct of intelligence, and how anxiety and stereotype threat can quietly affect how we perform. Along the way, you'll explore what test scores reveal, and what they miss, and leave with deeper insight into how minds like yours are shaped by both ability and context.

Estimated Time for Completion: 15 to 30 minutes

 

Trying the activity first makes the reading a lot more fun and insightful! But you don't need to do any activity to learn with the Copernican Revolution. Here's a link directly to this activity's reading; it will be on your certificate of completion too.

https://CopernicanRevolution.org/intelligence/iq-performance-stereotype-threat

I created the Copernican Revolution Project so anyone can learn about psychology through self-exploration. With every activity, you’ll get personalized results, an interpretation guide, and a certificate of completion (perfect if you're here for class credit). To help discover psychological insights, I occasionally combine responses to update our guides, present at conferences, write papers, or help students learn statistics. Your data is strictly confidential, and I will never single you out.

You can skip any questions you prefer not to answer (though it may impact the precision of your results). While this isn’t legally classified as "research," I follow ethical guidelines and you can read the full details in our Terms of Service and Consent to Participate.

Once you get your results, please share them with friends and family! You might just inspire someone else to learn a little more about themselves.

Katie

May I please include your responses in the Copernican Revolution Project?  I appreciate your help, and you would be helping others learn about psychology too.  But if you're uncomfortable with your answers analyzed, it’s completely okay!  You'll still get your personalized feedback.  You can still read our interpretation guides.  And you'll still get a certificate of completion.
 
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