Authors: Keith E. Stanovich
ISBN-13: 9780205685905, ISBN-10: 0205685900
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: August 2009
Edition: 9th Edition
Keith Stanovich's widely used and highly acclaimed book helps students become more discriminating consumers of psychological information, helping them recognize pseudoscience and be able to distinguish it from true psychological research. Stanovich helps instructors teach critical thinking skills within the rich context of psychology. It is the leading text of its kind.
How to Think Straight About Psychology says about the discipline of psychology what many instructors would like to say but haven't found a way to. That is one reason adopters have called it “an instructor's dream text” and often comment “I wish I had written it. It tells my students just what I want them to hear about psychology”.
Notes on the Fourth Edition | ||
Preface | ||
Ch. 1 | Psychology Is Alive and Well (And Doing Fine Among the Sciences) | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Falsifiability: A Discourse on How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head | 21 |
Ch. 3 | Operationism and Essentialism: "But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean?" | 35 |
Ch. 4 | Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi | 49 |
Ch. 5 | Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method | 69 |
Ch. 6 | Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans | 79 |
Ch. 7 | "But It's Not Real Life!": The "Artificiality" Criticism and Psychology | 91 |
Ch. 8 | Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence | 105 |
Ch. 9 | The Misguided Search for the "Magic Bullet": Multiple Causation | 127 |
Ch. 10 | The Achilles' Heel of Human Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning | 133 |
Ch. 11 | The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences | 171 |
References | 199 | |
Index | 219 |