How to think straight about psychology / Keth E. Stanovich
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TextPublication details: Pearson Education, India : 2004Edition: 7th edDescription: xiv, 226 pISBN: - 8131711447
- 9788131711446 (hbk)
- 150.72 St259
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Includes References and index
1. Psychology is alive and well (and doing fine among the science)
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 “Artificially” 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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