How To Think Straight About Psychology

Name: How To Think Straight About Psychology
Author: Keith Stanovich

Pearson New International Edition

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Paperback, blz. | Engels

Pearson Education | e druk, 2013

ISBN13: 9781292023106

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Pearson Education e druk, 2013 9781292023106

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For introductory psychology courses at two year or four year institutions. Also for specialty classes throughout the discipline that focus on critical thinking, science vs. pseudoscience, and discrimating valid research in the field.

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”.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781292023106

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Uitgever:Pearson Education

Hoofdrubriek:Mens en maatschappij

Inhoudsopgave

1. Psychology Is Alive and Well (and Doing Fine Among the Sciences)   The Freud Problem The Diversity of Modern Psychology  Implications of Diversity Unity in Science What, Then, Is Science? Systematic Empiricism  Publicly Verifiable Knowledge: Replication and Peer Review  Empirically Solvable Problems: Scientists’ Search for Testable Theories Psychology and Folk Wisdom: The Problem with “Common Sense” Psychology as a Young Science Summary     2. Falsifiability: How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head   Theories and the Falsifiability Criterion  The Theory of Knocking Rhythms  Freud and Falsifiability  The Little Green Men  Not All Confirmations Are Equal  Falsifiability and Folk Wisdom  The Freedom to Admit a Mistake  Thoughts Are Cheap Errors in Science: Getting Closer to the Truth Summary    3. Operationism and Essentialism: “But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean?”   Why Scientists Are Not Essentialists  Essentialists Like to Argue About the Meaning of Words  Operationists Link Concepts to Observable Events  Reliability and Validity  Direct and Indirect Operational Definitions  Scientific Concepts Evolve Operational Definitions in Psychology  Operationism as a Humanizing Force  Essentialist Questions and the Misunderstanding of Psychology  Operationism and the Phrasing of Psychological Questions Summary     4. Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi   The Place of the Case Study Why Testimonials Are Worthless: Placebo Effects The “Vividness” Problem  The Overwhelming Impact of the Single Case  The Amazing Randi: Fighting Fire with Fire Testimonials Open the Door to Pseudoscience Summary     5. Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method   The Third-Variable Problem: Goldberger and Pellagra  Why Goldberger’s Evidence Was Better The Directionality Problem Selection Bias Summary     6. Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans   Snow and Cholera Comparison, Control, and Manipulation  Random Assignment in Conjunction with Manipulation Defines the True Experiment  The Importance of Control Groups  The Case of Clever Hans, the Wonder Horse  Clever Hans in the 1990s  Prying Variables Apart: Special Conditions  Intuitive Physics  Intuitive Psychology Summary     7. “But It’s Not Real Life!”: The “Artificiality” Criticism and Psychology   Why Natural Isn’t Always Necessary  The “Random Sample” Confusion  The Random Assignment Versus Random Sample Distinction  Theory-Driven Research Versus Direct Applications Applications of Psychological Theory  The “College Sophomore” Problem  The Real-Life and College Sophomore Problems in Perspective Summary     8. Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence   The Connectivity Principle  A Consumer’s Rule: Beware of Violations of Connectivity  The “Great-Leap” Model Versus the Gradual-Synthesis Model Converging Evidence: Progress Despite Flaws  Converging Evidence in Psychology Scientific Conse