Preface |
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Introduction: What is Critical Thinking? |
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PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENCE |
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Why is this Course So Hard?---It's Only Psychology! |
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Why Do Psychologists Use So Much Jargon? |
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Why Don't You Skip the Theories and Give Us More Facts? |
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But That's Just Your Theory! |
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But You've Taken All the Mystery Out of It! |
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But That Contradicts Something I Believe! |
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How Can Psychology Be a Science if We Have Free Will? |
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METHODS |
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Why Do I Have to Learn All These Methods? I Just Want to Help People! |
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Why Do I Need to Study Statistics? |
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But It Was a Psychology Book! |
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I Thought Psychology Was about People, Not Numbers! |
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BIOLOGICAL BASES |
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Why Do We Have to Learn about the Brain? |
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But Can We Really Understand Behavior until We Know Its Biological Basis? |
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How Does the Mind Control the Body? |
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But Why Don't We Talk about What the Mind Really Is? |
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But People Aren't Machines! |
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Is It True That We Use Only 10% of Our Brains? |
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DEVELOPMENT |
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Why Don't Psychologists Believe in Punishment? |
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Isn't Psychology Mostly Common Sense? |
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Is Human Behavior Based on Nature or Nurture? |
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SENSATION/PERCEPTION |
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Can You Prove There Is No ESP? |
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What Would It Take to Make You Believe in ESP? |
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Imagine the Possibilities if ESP Were True! |
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Why Are Psychologists So Skeptical? |
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CONSCIOUSNESS |
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How Do You Explain Deja Vu? |
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Wasn't Hypnosis Once Considered a Pseudoscience? |
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LEARNING AND MEMORY |
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Why Do Psychologists Study Such Artificial Situations? |
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How Does the Rat Understand that Pressing the Bar Gets It Food? |
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How Could That Be a Coincidence? (Part 1) |
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How Could That Be a Coincidence? (Part 2) |
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How Could That Be a Coincidence? (Part 3) |
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THINKING AND LANGUAGE |
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Can We Hear Satanic Messages in Music That is Played Backward? |
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MOTIVATION AND EMOTION |
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I Found This Great Self-Help Book! |
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PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND INTELLIGENCE |
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How Can Psychology Be a Science When Every Person Is Unique? |
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PERSONALITY AND ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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Why Can't Psychologists Predict Who Will Commit a Violent Act? |
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My Mother Went to a Psychologist Who Was No Help at All! |
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Why Do Psychologists Avoid the Important Questions? |
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Why Are So Many Criminals Let Off on the Basis of Insanity? |
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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Why Are Psychologists So Liberal? |
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Psychological Explanations Often Contradict Common Sense! |
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I Can't Buy Evolutionary Psychology Because It Justifies Polygamy |
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I Can't Buy Evolutionary Psychology Because Most of the Time We Aren't Trying to Pass on Our Genes |
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References |
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List of Principles by Key Words |
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