What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought

What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich.

Stanovich shows that IQ tests (or their proxies, such as the SAT) are radically incomplete as measures of cognitive functioning. They fail to assess traits that most people associate with "good thinking," skills such as judgment and decision making. Such cognitive skills are crucial to rea...

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Main Author: Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Intelligence tests.
Thought and thinking.
thinking.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > General.
Psicología diferencial
Difference (Psychology)
Intelligence tests
Thought and thinking
Intelligenztest
Kognitive Kompetenz
Validität
Wissenschaftlichkeit
Intelligentietests.
Rationaliteit.
Intelligenztest.
Vernunft > Psychologie.
Validität.
Wissenschaftlichkeit.
Intelligenz.
Rationalität.
Intelligenzleistung.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Inside George W. Bush's mind : hints at what IQ tests miss
  • Dysrationalia : separating rationality and intelligence
  • The reflective mind, the algorithmic mind, and the autonomous mind
  • Cutting intelligence down to size
  • Why intelligent people doing foolish things is no surprise
  • The cognitive miser : ways to avoid thinking
  • Framing and the cognitive miser
  • Myside processing : heads I win, tails I win too!
  • A different pitfall of the cognitive miser : thinking a lot, but losing
  • Mindware gaps
  • Contaminated mindware
  • How many ways can thinking go wrong? A taxonomy of irrational thinking tendencies and their relation to intelligence
  • The social benefits of increasing human rationality, and meliorating irrationality.

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