Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Nature and Nurture of Critical Thinking
- 2 Evaluating Experimental Research
- 3 Critical Thinking in Quasi-Experimentation
- 4 Evaluating Surveys and Questionnaires
- 5 Critical Thinking in Designing and Analyzing Research
- 6 The Case Study Perspective on Psychological Research
- 7 Informal Logical Fallacies
- 8 Designing Studies to Avoid Confounds
- 9 Evaluating Theories
- 10 Not All Experiments Are Created Equal
- 11 Making Claims in Papers and Talks
- 12 Critical Thinking in Clinical Inference
- 13 Evaluating Parapsychological Claims
- 14 Why Would Anyone Do or Believe Such a Thing?
- 15 The Belief Machine
- 16 Critical Thinking and Ethics in Psychology
- 17 Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1 The Nature and Nurture of Critical Thinking
- 2 Evaluating Experimental Research
- 3 Critical Thinking in Quasi-Experimentation
- 4 Evaluating Surveys and Questionnaires
- 5 Critical Thinking in Designing and Analyzing Research
- 6 The Case Study Perspective on Psychological Research
- 7 Informal Logical Fallacies
- 8 Designing Studies to Avoid Confounds
- 9 Evaluating Theories
- 10 Not All Experiments Are Created Equal
- 11 Making Claims in Papers and Talks
- 12 Critical Thinking in Clinical Inference
- 13 Evaluating Parapsychological Claims
- 14 Why Would Anyone Do or Believe Such a Thing?
- 15 The Belief Machine
- 16 Critical Thinking and Ethics in Psychology
- 17 Critical Thinking in Psychology
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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- Critical Thinking in Psychology , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006