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Intelligence tests.
Thought and thinking.
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Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-
Intelligence tests.
Thought and thinking.
MARC Display
What
intelligence
tests
miss
: the
psychology
of
rational
thought
/ Keith E. Stanovich.
by
Stanovich, Keith E., 1950-
Yale University Press, c2009.
Call #:
153.9 S789w
Subjects
Intelligence
tests
.
Thought
and thinking.
ISBN:
9780300123852 (hardcover : alk. paper)
030012385X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780300164626 (pbk.)
0300164629 (pbk.)
Description:
xv, 308 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-301) and index.
Contents:
1. Inside George W. Bush's Mind: Hints at
What
IQ
Tests
Miss
-- 2. Dysrationalia: Separating Rationality and
Intelligence
-- 3. Reflective Mind, the Algorithmic Mind, and the Autonomous Mind -- 4. Cutting
Intelligence
Down to Size -- 5. Why Intelligent People Doing Foolish Things Is No Surprise -- 6. Cognitive Miser: Ways to Avoid Thinking -- 7. Framing and the Cognitive Miser -- 8. Myside Processing: Heads I Win - Tails I Win Too! -- 9. Different Pitfall of the Cognitive Miser: Thinking a Lot, but Losing -- 10. Mindware Gaps -- 11. Contaminated Mindware -- 12. How Many Ways Can "Thinking Go Wrong? A Taxonomy of Irrational Thinking Tendencies and Their Relation to
Intelligence
-- 13. Social Benefits of Increasing Human Rationality - and Meliorating Irrationality.
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
."--Dustjacket.
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