Cognitive Psychology

Intelligence: All That Matters  by Stuart Ritchie, Teach Yourself, 2016.

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life   by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray, Free Press, 1996.  Social Problems Caused by Low Intelligence poverty, out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, violent crime, divorce.  Confounding Variables The authors use statistical methods to distinguish the effect of low intelligence from confounding factors, from other causes, such as poverty or lack of education. After accounting for differences in t

What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought  by Keith E. Stanovich, Yale University Press, 2009.  Intelligence and Rationality are Not the Same Thing This is a book about cognitive psychology. Its main points are that: (a) Good thinking requires more than intelligence; it also requires rationality, (b) Intelligence tests do not measure rationality, they measure only intelligence, (c) There is a poor correlation between intelligence and rationality, (d) Th

In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence  by Russell T. Warne. Cambridge University Press (2020)  Intelligence The author describes the current consensus of cognitive psychologists regarding intelligence:  There is such a thing as general intelligence General intelligence can be measured General intelligence is mostly hereditary There are no known educational methods for substantially changing a student’s intelligence General intelligence correlates positively