Rationality and the reflective mind / Keith E. Stanovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanovich, Keith E., 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning (Psychology).

Individual differences.

Intellect.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author attempts to resolve the debate about how much irrationality to ascribe to human cognition. He shows how the insights of dual-process theory and evolutionary psychology can be combined to explain why humans are sometimes irrational even though they possess cognitive machinery of remarkable adaptiveness.

Contents:

Dual-process theory and the great rationality debate

Differentiating the algorithmic mind and the reflective mind

The key functions of the reflective mind and the algorithmic mind that support human rationality

The tri-process model and serial associative cognition

The master rationality motive and the origins of the nonautonomous mind

A taxonomy of rational thinking problems / Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West

Intelligence as a predictor of performance on heuristics and biases tasks / Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West

Rationality and intelligence: empirical and theoretical relationships and implications for the great rationality debate

The social implications of separating the concepts of intelligence and rationality

The assessment of rational thought / Keith E. Stanovich, Richard F. West and Maggie E. Toplak.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-971239-5

OCLC:

1336401514