Psychological Test, Raven Progressive Matrices
date: label: date made
content: 1938-1939
name: label: author
content: Raven, John C.
notes: label: Description
content: In 1938, the British psychologist John C. Raven (1902-1970) published this set of drawings “for measuring intelligence in subjects of all mental ages above 3 years.” The test consists of sixty pages of drawings, divided into five groups of twelve. The groups are designated by the letters A, B, C, D, and E. Each page contains one large rectangle with patterns drawn it and a piece left out. Below are six to eight smaller drawings in the shape of the omitted piece which have different patterns drawn on them. The subject of the test was to select the piece that completed the pattern. The tests of type A have one pattern covering the entire rectangle. Those of part B have three pieces drawn and patterns were to select a fourth from six choices below to create a symmetric 2 x 2 matrix. In sets C, D, and E there is a 3 x 3 matrix of patterns with one piece missing and eight choices as to how to fill it. The pamphlet is entitled: Progressive Matrices (/) Sets A, B, C, D and E (/) 1938. Further text on the cover reads: Printed from the R.E.C.I. Research series by the University Press, Cambridge (/) All Rights Reserved.”
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content: Inside the pamphlet of drawings is a leaflet entitled: PROGRESSIVE MATRICES 1938. It gives instructions for use and an answer key.
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content: Also in the pamphlet is a leaflet listing norms for the progressive matrices for ages from 6 to 14 at 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90 and 95 “percentile points.” It is marked: RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, (/) ROYAL EASTERN COUNTIES’ INSTITUTION, (/) COLCHESTER. (/) January, 1939.
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content: At the outbreak of World War II, Raven registered as a conscientious objector. He joined the Mill Hill Emergency Hospital where he studied effects of stress and injury on human actions and also promoted use of the Raven Progressive Matrices for testing recruits in the British army.
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content: This example of the test belonged to the American psychologist David Shakow.
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content: References:
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content: Raven, J. C. <I>Mental Tests Used in Genetic Studies: The Performance of Related Individuals on Tests Mainly Educative and Mainly Reproductive</I>, MSc Thesis, University of London, 1936.
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content: Raven, J.C., “Standardization of Progressive Matrices, 1938,” <I>Psychology and Psychotherapy</I>, September 1941, vol. 19 #1, pp, 137-150.
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content: An account of Raven’s life is given at the website of J.C. Raven Ltd, a company established by his sons in 1972. It has web address https://www.jcravenltd.com/dr_raven.htm, accessed February 4, 2020.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Cambridge
topic: label: Subject
content: Psychology
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content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of David Shakow
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316372.11
label: catalog number
content: 316372.11
label: accession number
content: 316372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Psychological Test
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 25.5 cm x 21 cm; 13/32 in x 10 1/32 in x 8 9/32 in