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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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1998, Longman
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1996, HarperCollinsCollegePublishers
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1992, HarperCollins
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1989, Scott, Foresman
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1985, Scott, Foresman
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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.

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23392689M
Internet Archive
howtothinkstraig00stan_961
ISBN 10
0205685900
ISBN 13
9780205685905
LCCN
2009021876
OCLC/WorldCat
277205435
Library Thing
106940
Goodreads
6834902

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