Challenging Your Preconceptions: Thinking Critically About Psychology

Smith, Randolph A.

ISBN 10: 0534199720 / ISBN 13: 9780534199722

Published by Wadsworth Publishing (edition 1), 1994

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience. Seller Inventory # 0534199720-11-1

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.

Review: 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).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Challenging Your Preconceptions: Thinking ...
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing (edition 1)
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 1.