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Allyn & Bacon
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How to think straight about psychology
2010, Allyn & Bacon
in English - 9th ed.
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How to think straight about psychology
2007, Pearson
in English - 8th ed.
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How to think straight about psychology
2004, Pearson/A and B, Allyn & Bacon
in English - 7th ed.
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How to think straight about psychology
2001, Allyn and Bacon
in English - 6th ed.
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How to think straight about psychology
1998, Longman
in English - 5th ed.
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How to think straight about psychology
1996, HarperCollinsCollegePublishers
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How to think straight about psychology
1992, HarperCollins
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How to think straight about psychology
1989, Scott, Foresman
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How to think straight about psychology
1985, Scott, Foresman
in English

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Table of Contents

Psychology is alive and well (and doing fine among the sciences)
Falsifiability : how to foil little green men in the head
Operationism and essentialism : "But, doctor, what does it really mean?"
Testimonials and case study evidence : placebo effects and the Amazing Randi
Correlation and causation : birth control by the toaster method
Getting things under control : the case of Clever Hans
"But it's not real life!" : the "artificiality," criticism and psychology
Avoiding the Einstein syndrome : the importance of converging evidence
The misguided search for the "magic bullet" : the issue of multiple causation
The Achilles' heel of human cognition : probabilistic reasoning
The role of chance in psychology
The Rodney Dangerfield of the sciences.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
150.72
Library of Congress
BF76.5 .S68 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23392689M
ISBN 10
0205685900
ISBN 13
9780205685905
LCCN
2009021876
OCLC/WorldCat
277205435
LibraryThing
106940
Goodreads
6834902

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OL1917210W

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