D Alan Bensley

Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life shows how a scientific, critical thinking approach can be effective in addressing psychological questions, and discusses other questions that straddle the boundary between science and non-science. While scientific, critical thinking can be effective in addressing psychological questions, this textbook is a guide for how to separate fact from speculation and true claims from misconceptions and misinformation. Covering a wide range of topics, this book seeks to engage students in a serious search for answers, using what psychologists and other scientists know about how to think effectively. What does science have to say about whether some people have special psychic abilities, such as being able to "see" the future? Can people use their minds to move objects without any physical aid? Does the mind actually leave the body during an out-of-body experience?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Learning / Worth Publishers
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-319-06314-6
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 189mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9781319063146
• ISBN-10: 1319063144
• Artikelnr.: 50024595

Autorenporträt

D. Alan Bensley

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life 2. Deductive Reasoning
Prediction
and Making Assumptions 3. Inductive Reasoning in Psychology and Everyday Life 4. Critical Thinking and Scientific Reasoning 5. Pseudoscience
Science
and Evidence-Based Practice 6. Errors in Attention
Perception
and Memory That Affect Thinking 7. Can the Mind Leave the Body? The Mind-Brain Problem 8. Critical Thinking and the Internet 9. Emotion
Motivated Reasoning
and Critical Thinking 10. Critically Analyzing a Psychological Question: Are People Basically Selfish? 11. Judgment
Decision Making
and Types of Thinking 12. Superstition
Magic
Science
and Critical Thinking 13. Critical Thinking in Clinical Reasoning and Diagnosis 14. Language
Writing
and Critical Thinking