Who Do You Think You Are?: Find out about yourself in 20 psychology tests by Alice Harman

Who Do You Think You Are?: Find out about yourself in 20 psychology tests Reviews

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  Natalie all_books_great_and_small

  I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
  
  This is a great book for young adult readers who want to learn about psychology or are thinking of doing psychology.
  The book has some great tests for you to do to find out more about yourself and understand yourself more. The end of the book has more information about the types of psychology and other useful information to read about psychology too.
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  Alicia Bayer

  This is a fun book for kids who like to take those data-mining Facebook quizzes to find out what kind of (fill in the blank) they are or who want to learn more about how psychologists use tests to measure personality, intelligence, creativity, etc. It features 20 light quizzes, though they are a little lacking compared to proper psychological tests, to say the least.
  
  My mother got her masters and phD in psychology and became a psychologist and psychology professor while I was growing up, so I was the guinea pig for several thousand tests of all types over the years for her, her friends and eventually her students. As such, I probably have a little higher expectation for this children's book. It does provide some basic information, but I would consider it more for fun than actual education. That said, kids will no doubt have lots of fun determining what kind of meal they'd be, figuring out spacial puzzles, and otherwise playing with these quizzes. It does provide some basic information about how psychologists use these tests, what kind of career they'd be suited for based on their personalities, and so on.
  
  I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
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  Radwa

  I thank Netgalley and The Quarto Group for the digital ARC.
  
  This is a great book for young readers who really love to take quizzes that are all over the internet starting from buzzfeed's million of quizzes to something like Pottermore. This book introduces a lot of quizzes, some of them are scientific, others are simple like what type of food are you, but still gives you a somewhat scientific detailing of what your answer says about you.
  
  I think I would've loved it more a couple of years ago when I was invested in these types of quizzes, but it was fun answering each quiz and reading the analysis of my answers.
  
  
  
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  I'mogén

  Thank you Netgalley for access to an e-copy. All opinions are 100% my own.
  
  This was available as a read now option, so I thought I'd give it a go.
  
  The quizzes threw me back to childhood, when you got them in magazines, so they were definitely young for me, but fun nevertheless, and definitely more professional and scientific in the approach.
  
  I found that some of the pages that you needed to read across, didn't work out because of the tablet form.
  
  Some of the responses to the multiple choice questions were savage... "study by myself in the library, rather than go to class so I don't have to put up with other student's stupid questions and behaviour."... I mean this is what I do but damn. That's fierce!
  
  It did get kind of boring after a while and this resulted in me swapping it out for a different lunch time read book, but this left me reluctant to pick it up often. I think it is because there were just too many quizzes... I understand the intention is maybe not to try and read this all cover to cover, because that would lose the attention span of the intended target audience (and myself, as we have just said), but I do think, for what seems to be marketed as a more introductory book on this topic, it seems a little overwhelming.
  
  I thought I'd include my results for the tests!
  (This is basically the rest of my review, really just for my reference).
  
  What's your humour?
  I answered mostly D's in this quiz so apparently I would be considered melancholic to the ancient Greeks.
  
  Which social sign should you be?
  Air
  
  What kind of meal are you?
  Sandwich...
  
  True or false?
  EXTROVERT AND INTROVERT, SENSING, FEELING, CONTROLLED. (EISFC) Either a bear animal (ISFC) or dog (ESFC).... Not sure these best describe me properly, but combined and altered, then yes.
  This test was quite long winded and confusing.
  
  What personality type are you? -shapes
  Star... wouldn't say I love being the center of attention or being in a big crowd at all, but not all of these seem super accurate.
  
  The Big 5 Quiz:
  Extroversion: -2
  Neuroticism: 3
  Openess: -1
  Conscientiousness: 1
  Agreeableness: 1
  I didn't end up plotting the results.
  
  Left Brain - Right Brain Quiz:
  Right-brained
  
  Barratt Impulsiveness Test:
  I scored 25 - not very impulsive.
  
  Empathy Scale:
  18 - closest to 20, extremely strong sense, overwhelmed by other's feelings.
  
  Neophilia Quiz:
  -4 Happy with the Old.
  
  Why Worry? Quiz:
  Mostly A's: Worries a lot.
  
  Verbal Reasoning Quiz:
  26/30
  
  Numerical Reasoning Quiz:
  4/30
  
  Spatial Reasoning Quiz & View From The Top:
  30/30
  
  Culture-Fair IQ Test:
  Final score: 34.7
  
  Strong Interest Inventory:
  Apparently I am a thinker in this scenario.
  
  Projective Test:
  Swimming pool time. Someone stepping into the water and someone looking nervous.
  
  I didn't take part in Guilford's Alternative Uses Test or Torrance Tests for Creativity.
  The glossary was a useful tool for some quick recap over the terminology of this subject area and the information included on the different type of jobs in this field was very helpful too.
  
  Pick it up, give it a go and enjoy! >(^_^)<
  Gén
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  April Gray

  An interesting book about psychology for kids, featuring different tests to help them learn about different facets of personality, such as types, traits, and aspects, as well as intelligence, creativity, the unconscious mind, and more. The quizzes are fun, and serve to exemplify the subject matter of each section, and the accompanying illustrations are colorful and engaging. While the quizzes are rather a one-shot deal, there's enough information on psychology to make this book a keeper for children who are interested in the subject; this may be better suited to a school, classroom, or public library for the most part however. Most of the quizzes are non-competitive (by which I mean they're the "no right or wrong answer" type), and would make for fun group activities.
  
  #WhoDoYouThinkYouAre #NetGalley
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  Heather Hoyt

  This is supposed to be fun, but it mostly felt confusing. It was hard to track down the answers and score tests, the color of the pages was too dark to read the text, and doing that many personality tests just made me feel unsettled.
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  Brittany

  A quick read, geared for high schoolers which I didn’t realize at first. Fun quizzes, some of which are completely wacky, which they acknowledge. Still fun!