Selected Product:
| Critical Thinking in Psychology: Separating Sense from Nonsense
Paperback
Edition: 2
Author: John Ruscio
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 2005-07-26
ISBN-10: 0534634591
ISBN-13: 9780534634599
List Price: $54.95
Average Customer Rating:
 | |
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
ISBN-10: 1557987912
ISBN-13: 9781557987914
List Price:$27.95
A Writer's Reference
ISBN-10: 0312450257
ISBN-13: 9780312450250
List Price:$51.97
Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You
ISBN-10: 1591477328
ISBN-13: 9781591477327
List Price:$29.95
Psychology: Themes and Variations, Briefer Edition (with Concept Charts)
ISBN-10: 0495100587
ISBN-13: 9780495100584
List Price:$105.95
A History of Modern Psychology
ISBN-10: 0495097993
ISBN-13: 9780495097990
List Price:$150.95
|
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Critical Thinking in Psychology: Separating Sense from Nonsense by John Ruscio (ISBN-10: 0534634591, ISBN-13: 9780534634599).
At this time we have not yet written a review for Critical Thinking in Psychology: Separating Sense from Nonsense by John Ruscio (ISBN-10: 0534634591, ISBN-13: 9780534634599). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.
Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com
Do you have the tools to distinguish between the true science of human thought and behavior from pop psychology? John Ruscio's book provides a tangible and compelling framework for making that distinction. Because we are inundated with "scientific" claims, the author does not merely differentiate science and pseudoscience, but goes further to teach the fundamentals of scientific reasoning upon which you can base your evaluation of information.
Great teaching tool
| Customer Rating: | | This book is required reading for my general psychology students. Complex issues in behavioral science are presented in a clear, almost conversational manner, through discussion of apt examples like MPD and false memories, Clever Hans, crop circles, claims of alien abductions, conspiracy theories, and homeopathic medicine. The chapters are short (10-15 pgs.) and can be related to the intro psych text book chapters, thus it is fairly easy to integrate the material into the syllabus. For example, Ch. 4 covers the need to evaluate appeals to authority and expertise, in part by walking the reader through Milgram's obedience research and explaining the results, which makes it a good companion for the text book chapter on social psychology. Most students find the book compelling and thought provoking, and class discussions are lively and fun for me and for them. At semester's end, students are equipped with knowledge and thinking skills that will help them to sort science from pseudoscience, spot fallacious reasoning and bias in themselves and others, and examine correlations and claims of causation critically. |
|
