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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Getting Started on Critical Thinking | |
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| What is critical thinking? | |
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| Defining critical thinking | |
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| Psychology and critical thinking | |
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| Chapter 1 - Critical Questions | |
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| Logic and the Philosophy of Critical Thinking | |
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| Non sequitur | |
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| Slippery slope | |
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| Tu quoque | |
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| Post hoc ergo propter hoc | |
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| Argument from ignorance | |
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| Shifting the burden of proof | |
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| Special pleading | |
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| The straw person | |
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| False binary opposition | |
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| Ad hominem fallacy | |
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| Begging the question | |
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| Appeal to questionable authority | |
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| Socratic questioning: the ancient art of 'But why?' | |
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| Why prioritise critical thinking? | |
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| Chapter 2 - Critical Questions | |
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| Critical Thinking in the Wider World | |
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| Am I bovvered? | |
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| More about Grice's Maxims | |
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| The arts | |
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| Offence in art | |
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| Aesthetics in art | |
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| Talent in art | |
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| Comparative art | |
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| Understanding art | |
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| Final comments on art | |
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| Applying critical thinking to the language of advertising | |
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| Ambiguity | |
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| Libel and the law | |
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| When is a review not a review? | |
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| The unqualified opinion | |
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| The unfair review | |
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| The wrong end of the stick | |
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| Irrelevance and axe grinding | |
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| Occam's Razor | |
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| The great examination debate | |
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| University league tables | |
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| Reflection and critical thinking | |
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| Chapter 3 - Critical Questions | |
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| Critical Thinking Inside Psychology | |
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| Systematic reviews | |
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| Critical thinking in statistics and probability | |
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| The Texas sharpshooter fallacy | |
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| The gambler's fallacy, the clustering illusion, apophenia, pareidolia and other wonderful things | |
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| Pseudoscience and the enemies of psychology | |
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| Jargon | |
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| Training | |
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| Secrecy and mystery | |
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| Stasis | |
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| Psychology as a protoscience | |
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| Three enemies of psychology | |
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| Discourse analysis: a practical application of critical thinking | |
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| Critical thinking in research methods and statistics | |
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| Correlation and causation | |
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| Control groups | |
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| Blind and double-blind | |
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| Observation and interpretation | |
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| History repeating itself | |
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| The wrong analysis | |
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| 'Bigging up' weak results | |
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| Borderline findings and margins of error | |
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| Clinical significance versus statistical significance | |
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| Crime statistics | |
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| Critical thinking in health psychology | |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine | |
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| Critical thinking in cognitive psychology | |
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| Critical thinking in social psychology | |
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| Critical thinking in biological psychology | |
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| Chapter 4 - Critical Questions | |
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| Putting Critical Thinking to Use: Getting Good Grades | |
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| Sample mini-essays: compare and contrast | |
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| Understanding Feedback | |
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| Politeness | |
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| Being too descriptive | |
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| Academic style | |
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| Answering the question | |
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| Lacking depth | |
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| Lacking structure or planning | |
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| Citing your sources | |
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| Learning for thinking | |
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| Chapter 5 - Critical Questions | |
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| Getting Fit for Critical Thinking | |
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| Fostering a critical mindset | |
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| A sense of externality | |
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| Mindfulness | |
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| Critical reading | |
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| Summarising | |
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| Chapter 6 - Critical Questions | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Exercises in Critical Thinking | |
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| Checklist for Critical Thinking | |
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| Your own checklist | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |