Keith E. Stanovich

(1949) Psychologist

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Keith E. Stanovich is a psychologist.

Quick Facts About Keith E. Stanovich

Born: November 30, 1949
Profession: Psychologist

About Keith E. Stanovich

[Wikidata] Canadian psychologist (1950-)... | [Wikipedia] Keith Edward Stanovich is an American psychologist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto and former Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science. His primary research areas are the psychology of reasoning and the psychology of rea

Quotes by Keith E. Stanovich

“Jack is looking at Anne but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person…

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Marriage

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“Humans are cognitive misers because their basic tendency is to default to Type I processing mechanisms of low computational expense. Using less…

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Modern life

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“In order to override Type i processing, Type 2 processing must display at least two related capabilities. One is the capability of…

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Goals

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“More intelligent people appear to reason better only when you tell them in advance what good thinking is!”

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Intelligent people

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“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance…

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Decision making

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“One study demonstrated that people's evaluation of a situation where they might receive a shock is insensitive to the probability of receiving…

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Education

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“The defining feature of Type r processing is its autonomy. Type r processes are termed autonomous because: r) their execution is rapid,…

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Freedom

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“There is voluminous evidence that exclusive reliance on heuristic processing tendencies of Type I sometimes results in suboptimal responding (Baron, 2008; Evans,…

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Footnotes

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“When a high IQ-test score is accompanied by subpar performance in some other domain, this is thought "surprising," and a new disability…

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High Iq

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“To be rational, a person must have well-calibrated beliefs and must act appropriately on those beliefs to achieve goals-both properties of the…

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Faith

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“Cognitive scientists recognize two types of rationality: instrumental and epistemic. The simplest definition of instrumental rationality-the one that emphasizes most that it…

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Goals

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“In cognitive science, the tendency to give different responses to problems that have surface dissimilarities but that are really formally identical is…

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Decision making

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“Substantial empirical evidence indicates that individual differences in thinking dispositions and intelligence are far from perfectly correlated. Many different studies involving thousands…

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Individual differences

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“It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!”

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Intelligence

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