Assessing Cognitive Abilities: Intelligence and More

Abstract

In modern cognitive science, rationality and intelligence are measured using different tasks and operations. Furthermore, in several contemporary dual process theories of cognition, rationality is a more encompassing construct than intelligence. Researchers need to continue to develop measures of rational thought without regard to empirical correlations with intelligence. The measurement of individual differences in rationality should not be subsumed by the intelligence concept.

Keywords

• rationality
• intelligence
• heuristics and biases
• decision making
• dual-process theory