How to Think Straight About Psychology, 11th edition

Published by Pearson (June 14, 2021) © 2019

  • Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
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For courses in Introductory Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Research and Experimental Methods

How to Think Straight About Psychology helps students build the critical thinking skills needed to independently evaluate psychological information. Author Keith Stanovich teaches students to analyse claims found in the media, to distinguish between pseudoscience and valid psychological research, and to apply psychological knowledge to the world around them. 

The 11th Edition covers a range of new topics. Fresh examples illustrate psychological principles, pseudoscience and issues obscuring the growing knowledge base in the field.

1. Psychology Is Alive and Well (and Doing Fine Among the Sciences)
2. Falsifiability: How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head
3. Operationism and Essentialism: “But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean?”
4. Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi
5. Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method
6. Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans
7. “But It's Not Real Life!”: The “Artificiality” Criticism and Psychology
8. Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence
9. The Misguided Search for the “Magic Bullet”: The Issue of Multiple Causation
10. The Achilles' Heel of Human Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning
11. The Role of Chance in Psychology
12. The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences

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