How to think straight about psychology /
"Keith Stanovich's widely used and highly acclaimed book helps instructors teach critical-thinking skills within the rich context of psychology. It can be used as a stand-alone text or as a supplement in introductory psychology, critical-thinking, as well as research methods and statistics...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Pearson Allyn and Bacon,
c2007.
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| Edition: | 8th ed. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents View in OPAC |
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Table of Contents:
- Psychology is alive and well (and doing fine among the sciences)
- Falsifiability: how to foil little green men in the head
- Operationism and essentialism: "But, doctor, what does it really mean?"
- Testimonials and case study evidence: placebo effects and the amazing Randi
- Correlation and causation: birth control by the toaster method
- Getting things under control: the case of Clever Hans
- "But it's not real life!": the "artificiality" criticism and psychology
- Avoiding the Einstein syndrome: the importance of converging evidence
- The misguided search for the "magic bullet": the issue of multiple causation
- The Achilles' heel of human cognition: probabilistic reasoning
- The role of chance in psychology
- The Rodney Dangerfield of the sciences.