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How to Think Straight About Psychology - Softcover

Stanovich, Keith E.

 
9780205360932: How to Think Straight About Psychology
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0205360939 ISBN 13: 9780205360932
Verlag: Pearson, 2003

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This widely used supplement focuses on applying critical thinking techniques to standard concepts in psychology and helps readers 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 the reader to become more critical and discriminating consumers of psychological information.

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This widely used 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, the text helps students become more critical and discriminating consumers of psychological information.

Highlights of the Seventh Edition:

  • Presents psychological topics such as falsifiability, operationalism, experimental control, converging evidence, correlational vs. experimental studies, and statistics as “tools” for critical evaluation, providing students with a set of practical consumer skills to independently evaluate psychological claims.
  • Discusses psychology in the media and gives students some “consumer rules”for dealing with it.
  • Presents information on how to tell true psychological research from pseudoscience.
  • Provides instructors with the opportunity to teach critical thinking skills within the rich context of modern psychology.

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Verlag
Pearson
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0205360939
ISBN 13 
9780205360932
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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