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How to Think Straight About Psychology Keith E. Stanovich

How to Think Straight About Psychology By Keith E. Stanovich

How to Think Straight About Psychology by Keith E. Stanovich


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By focusing on applying critical-thinking techniques to standard concepts in psychology, this book aims to teach students to evalute claims that arise in discussions of psychology in the media and self-help literature. This edition features updated examples and references.

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How to Think Straight About Psychology Summary

How to Think Straight About Psychology by Keith E. Stanovich

This widely used brief paperback supplement focuses on applying critical thinking techniques to standard concepts in psychology and teaches students to recognize and critically appraise pseudoscience. In particular, this text provides tips on evaluating claims that arise in discussions of psychology in the media and self-help literature. By boldly examining common misconceptions in psychology, this text helps students become more critical and discriminating consumers of psychological information. *Examples used to illustrate psychological concepts have been updated to enhance student interest. *A total of 132 new references integrate contemporary studies to provide a current view of the field. *Section on the concept of memes (made famous by Richard Dawkins) and itsrelation to falsifiability has been added to Chapter 12. *Presents psychological topics such as falsifiability, operationalism, experimentalcontrol, converging evidence, correlational vs. experimental studies, andstatistics as tools for critical evaluation, providing students with a set of practical consumer skills to independently evaluate psychological claims. * Provides instructors with the opportunity to teach critical thinking skills within the rich context of modern psychology. *An intriguing table of contents piques the reader's interest.

Table of Contents

1. Psychology Is Alive and Well (and Doing Fine among the Sciences). The Freud Problem. The Diversity of Modern Psychology. Unity in Science. What, Then, Is Science? Psychology and Folk Wisdom: The Problem with Common Sense. Psychology as a Young Science. 2. Falsifiability: A Discourse on How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head. Theories and the Falsifiability Criterion. Errors in Science: Getting Closer to the Truth. 3. Operationism and Essentialism: But Doctor, What Does It Really Mean? Why Scientists Are Not Essentialists. Operational Definitions in Psychology. 4. Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi. Stages of Scientific Investigation. Why Testimonials Are Worthless: Placebo Effects. The Vividness Problem. Testimonials Open the Door to Pseudoscience. 5. Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method. Pearson and Tuberculosis. The Third-Variable Problem: Goldberger and Pellagra. The Directionality Problem. Selection Bias. 6. Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans. Snow and Cholera. Comparison, Control, and Manipulation. 7. But It's Not Real Life! The Artificiality Criticism and Psychology. Applications of Psychological Theory. 8. Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence. The Connectivity Principle. Converging Evidence. Scientific Consensus. A Counsel against Despair. 9. The Misguided Search for the Magic Bullet: The Issue of Multiple Causation. 10. The Achilles' Heel of Human Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning. Person-Who Statistics. Probabilistic Reasoning and the Misunderstanding of Psychology. Psychological Research on Probabilistic Reasoning. 11. The Role of Chance in Psychology. The Tendency to Try to Explain Chance Events. Chance and Psychology. Accepting Error in Order to Reduce Error: Clinical versus Actuarial Prediction. 12. The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences. Psychology's Image Problem. Psychology and the Media. Psychology and Other Disciplines. Our Own Worst Enemies. Isn't Everyone a Psychologist? Implicit Theories of Behavior. The Source of Resistance to Scientific Psychology. The Final Word. References. Index.

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CIN0321047133G
9780321047137
0321047133
How to Think Straight About Psychology by Keith E. Stanovich
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20000727
240
N/A
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