What is it about?
This chapter examines whether various unconscious processes in perception, learning, and decision making can be considered adaptive and intelligent, or just plain stupid. Read the chapter to find out the answer. It might be more complicated than you think.
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Why is it important?
Researchers sometimes claim that in order for us to function well in the world, we need to attend to and control our experiences. This chapter explains that might be true for some but not all types of experience.
Perspectives
I have been exploring issues of unconscious or implicit learning since the 1970s. This chapter gave me the opportunity to place the issue of implicit learning in a broader context of human intelligent functioning.
Rhianon Allen
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: IQ, Adaptive Intelligence, and Unconscious Processes, August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197501573.003.0009.
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