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What Intelligence Tests Miss - Keith E. Stanovich

What Intelligence Tests Miss

The Psychology of Rational Thought
Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2010
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-16462-6 (ISBN)
CHF 41,25 inkl. MwSt
Critics of intelligence tests have argued 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. This book challenges this assumption.
An engaging discussion of the important cognitive characteristics missing from IQ tests

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.

Keith E. Stanovich is professor of human development and applied psychology, University of Toronto. He is author of How to Think Straight about Psychology and The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin, among other books.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.2.2010
Zusatzinfo 8 b-w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Test in der Psychologie
ISBN-10 0-300-16462-9 / 0300164629
ISBN-13 978-0-300-16462-6 / 9780300164626
Zustand Neuware
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