Critical Thinking in Psychology - Cambridge University Press, 2007 - 340

An introductory text on critical thinking for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Preface, The Nature and Nurture of Critical Thinking, Evaluating Experimental Research: Critical Issues, Critical Thinking in Quasi-Experimentation, Evaluating Surveys and Questionnaires, Critical Thinking in Designing and Analyzing Research, The Case Study Perspective on Psychological Research, Informal Logical Fallacies, Designing Studies to Avoid Confounds, Evaluating Theories, Not All Experiments Are Created Equal: On Conducting and Reporting Persuasive Experiments, Making Claims in Papers and Talks, Critical Thinking in Clinical Inference, Evaluating Parapsychological Inference, The Belief Machine, Critical Thinking and Ethics in Psychology, Author and Subject Index.

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