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Challenging Your Preconceptions: Thinking Critically About Psychology - Softcover

Smith, Randolph A.

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9780534199722: Challenging Your Preconceptions: Thinking Critically About Psychology
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ISBN 10: 0534199720 ISBN 13: 9780534199722
Publisher: Brooks/Cole Pub Co, 1994

Synopsis

Your students will strengthen their critical-thinking skills as they apply them to psychological issues such as hypnosis and repressed memory, statistical seduction, the validity of pop psychology, and many others. Organized to fit with the traditional chapters of most introductory psychology texts, the book covers critical thinking within the context of research methods and statistics, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, altered states of consciousness, learning, memory, testing, motivation, therapy, and abnormal and social psychology.

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1. Guidelines for Critical Thinking (Introduction). 2. Psychology and the Popular Press (How to Critically Read About Psychology). 3. Statistical Seduction (Statistics and Research). 4. Anatomy is Destiny--Or Is It? (Biological Bases of Behavior). 5. Is What You See What You Get? (Sensation and Perception). 6. Can Hypnosis Help Me Remember? (Altered States of Consciousness). 7. Conditioning and Advertising (Learning). 8. Biases in Memory (Memory). 9. IQ is Forever--Isn't It? (Testing). 10. Understanding Your Own Motives (Motivation). 11. Evaluating Codependency. 12. Is Bibliotheraphy Helpful? 13. Social Influence Tactics (Social Psychology).

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Publisher
Brooks/Cole Pub Co
Publication date
1994
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0534199720
ISBN 13 
9780534199722
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
128
Rating
  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
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