How to think straight about Psychology /
Keith E. Stanovich
- 7th ed.
- Dorling kinderseley Pearson 2007
- 226p
Psychology Is Alive and Well (and Doing Fine Among the Sciences) (Page-1), Falsifiability: How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head (Page-19), Operationism and Essentialism: "But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean?" (Page-35), Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi (Page-51), Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method (Page-69), Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans (Page-81), "But It's Not Real Life!": The "Artificiality" Criticism and Psychology (Page-99), Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence (Page-113), The Misguided Search for the "Magic Bullet": The Issue of Multiple Causation (Page-131), The Achilles' Heel of Human Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning (Page-139), The Role of Chance in Psychology (Page-153), The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences (Page-175).