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| 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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| You're So Logical! | |
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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 the Book Says ... | |
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| But I Read It in a Book! | |
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| But It Was a Psychology Book! | |
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| But Everybody Knows ... | |
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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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| I Knew It All Along! | |
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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? | |
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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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| How Do Biorhythms Work? | |
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| Personality and Abnormal Psychology | |
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| What about Astrology? | |
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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 | |