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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intelligence tests.

Thought and thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Critics of intelligence tests-writers such as Robert Sternberg, Howard Gardner, and Daniel Goleman-have argued in recent years that these tests neglect important qualities such as emotion, empathy, and interpersonal skills. However, such critiques imply that though intelligence tests may miss certain key noncognitive areas, they encompass most of what is important in the cognitive domain. In this book, Keith E. Stanovich challenges this widely held assumption.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 real-world behavior, affecting the way we plan, evaluate critical evidence, judge risks and probabilities, and make effective decisions. IQ tests fail to assess these skills of rational thought, even though they are measurable cognitive processes. Rational thought is just as important as intelligence, Stanovich argues, and it should be valued as highly as the abilities currently measured on intelligence tests.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-301) and index.

ISBN:

9786612352188

9781282352186

1282352180

9780300142532

0300142536

OCLC:

551733035