| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 328 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Dual-Process Theory and the Great Rationality Debate; The Great Rationality Debate; Individual Differences in the Great Rationality Debate; Dual-Process Theory: The Current State of Play; Properties of Type 1 and Type 2 Processing; Dual-Process Theory and Human Goals: Implications for the Rationality Debate; The Rest of This Book: Complications in Dual-Process Theory and Their Implications for the Concepts of Rationality and Intelligence; 2. Differentiating the Algorithmic Mind and the Reflective Mind; Unpacking Type 2 Functioning Using Individual Differences |
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Cognitive Ability and Thinking Dispositions Partition the Algorithmic and the Reflective MindIntelligence Tests and Critical Thinking Tests Partition the Algorithmic from the Reflective Mind; Thinking Dispositions as Independent Predictors of Rational Thought; 3. The Key Functions of the Reflective Mind and the Algorithmic Mind that Support Human Rationality; So-Called "Executive Functioning" Measures Tap the Algorithmic Mind and Not the Reflective Mind; 4. The Tri-Process Model and Serial Associative Cognition; The Cognitive Miser and Focal Bias |
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Converging Evidence in the Dual-Process Literature5. The Master Rationality Motive and the Origins of the Nonautonomous Mind; Metarepresentation and Higher-Order Preferences; What Motivates the Search for Rational Integration?; The Master Rationality Motive as a Psychological Construct; Evolutionary Origins of the Master Rational Motive and Type 2 Processing; 6. A Taxonomy of Rational Thinking Problems; Dual-Process Theory and Knowledge Structures; The Preliminary Taxonomy; Heuristics and Biases Tasks in Terms of the Taxonomy; Multiply-Determined Problems of Rational Thought |
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Missing Input from the Autonomous Mind7. Intelligence as a Predictor of Performance on Heuristics and Biases Tasks; Intelligence and Classic Heuristics and Biases Effects; Belief Bias and Myside Bias; Why Thinking Biases Do and Do Not Associate with Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Decoupling, Mindware Gaps, and Override Detection in Heuristics and Biases Tasks; 8. Rationality and Intelligence: Empirical and Theoretical Relationships and Implications for the Great Rationality Debate; Intelligence and Rationality Associations in Terms of the Taxonomy; Summary of the Relationships |
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Individual Differences, the Reflective Mind, and the Great Rationality DebateSkepticism About Mindware-Caused Irrationalities; 9. The Social Implications of Separating the Concepts of Intelligence and Rationality; Broad Versus Narrow Concepts of Intelligence; Intelligence Imperialism; Intelligence Misidentified as Adaptation and the Deification of Intelligence; Strategies for Cutting Intelligence Down to Size; Society's Selection Mechanisms; 10. The Assessment of Rational Thought; A Framework for the Assessment of Rational Thinking; Operationalizing the Components of Rational Thought |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cognition.
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Individual differences.
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Intellect
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Reasoning (Psychology)
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cognition.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Cognition
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Individual differences
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Intellect
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Reasoning (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199712397 |
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0199712395 |
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9780199894307 |
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0199894302 |
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