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Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life

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First  Edition©2018  D. Alan Bensley

ISBN:9781319190989

ISBN:9781319063146

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Learn how to separate fact from speculation and true claims from misconceptions and misinformation as Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life demonstrates how you can take scientific thinking and apply it to psychological questions. Engage yourself in the serious search for answers, using what psychologists and other scientists know about how to think effectively, tackling questions like,  "Does the mind actually leave the body during an out-of-body experience?" The answer may surprise you.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Critical Thinking in Psychology and Everyday Life
2. Deductive Reasoning, Prediction, and Making Assumptions
3. Inductive Reasoning in Psychology and Everyday Life
4. Critical Thinking and Scientific Reasoning
5. Pseudoscience, Science, and Evidence-Based Practice
6. Errors in Attention, Perception, and Memory That Affect Thinking
7. Can the Mind Leave the Body? The Mind–Brain Problem
8. Critical Thinking and the Internet
9. Emotion, Motivated Reasoning, and Critical Thinking
10. Critically Analyzing a Psychological Question: Are People Basically Selfish?
11. Judgment, Decision Making, and Types of Thinking
12. Superstition, Magic, Science, and Critical Thinking
13. Critical Thinking in Clinical Reasoning and Diagnosis 
14. Language, Writing, and Critical Thinking

D. Alan Bensley