Problem Solving & Comprehension. Fourth Edition [microform] / Arthur Whimbey and Jack Lochhead.
This book shows how to increase one's power to analyze and comprehend problems. First, it outlines and illustrates the methods that good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas. Then it gives some practice in applying these methods to a variety of questions in comprehension and reasoning...
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| 520 | |a This book shows how to increase one's power to analyze and comprehend problems. First, it outlines and illustrates the methods that good problem solvers use in attacking complex ideas. Then it gives some practice in applying these methods to a variety of questions in comprehension and reasoning. Chapters include: (1) "Test Your Mind--See How It Works" (including the Whimbey Analytical Skills Inventory (WASI) test); (2) "Errors in Reasoning" (giving a checklist of the errors); (3) "Problem-Solving Methods"; (4) "Verbal Reasoning Problems" (containing 40 problems with solutions and 43 additional problems); (5) "Six Myths about Reading"; (6) "Analogies" (containing 24 problems); (7) "Writing Relationship Sentences" (containing 33 relationship problems); (8) "How To Form Analogies" (containing 24 analogy problems); (9) "Analysis of Trends and Patterns" (containing 47 problems); (10) "Solving Mathematical Word Problems" (containing 31 problems with solutions and 65 additional problems); and (11) "The Post-Wasi Test." Appendices provide an answer key to the problems and conversion tables for computing an IQ score from the WASI score. (YP) | ||
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