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How To Think Straight About Psychology (9th Edition) 9th Edition

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ISBN-13: 978-0205685905
ISBN-10: 0205685900
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pearson; 9 edition (August 8, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0205685900
  • ISBN-13: 978-0205685905
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMethodology Primer for Everyone
By A Customer on May 23, 2003
Format: Paperback
Stanovich was assigned reading in my psych class years ago (this review is of the 4th edition). It's the best introduction to sound methodology in the behavioral sciences I've ever read. As previous reviewers have pointed out, the critical thinking skills you learn from this book can (and OUGHT to) be applied) to many, many other facets of our daily life. It's not just for psych majors, but for everyone who reads a newspaper, buys consumer products, votes in elections, etc. And you don't need a background in statistics to benefit from it. A worthy companion to Darrell Huff's classic "How to Lie with Statistics" and John Allen Paulos's "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper".
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1.0 out of 5 starsKindle Edition Download
By Jacque on March 11, 2014
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On February 20, 2014, I downloaded the 10th edition Kindle version of this text. After reading chapters 9-11, viewing previous texts and looking at the publishing criteria, my Kindle version does not appear to be an authentic work by this author. In previous editions, his style is to credit many other scholars and to provide a thorough introduction as to the intent and focus of the text. My downloaded version provided neither. Furthermore there within the three chapters that I read, there were numerous punctuation, grammatical and content errors that would not have passed the many editors who were listed as reviewers of this text. It is my impression that my downloaded version is not an accurate representation of the author's work.

J. West
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must-read for anyone in psychology!
By A Customer on January 29, 2002
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I read this book during my research methods class while completing my undergraduate education four years ago. This was one of the most helpful books that I have ever read related to psychology. More specifically, this book reminds us that, as psychologists, we need to remember to take in all information with a grain of salt. In other words, remember to critically evaluate all information presented to you and not believe everything is face valid.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFinally, a psychology through a skeptic's lens!
By A Customer on February 4, 2001
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I have been waiting for years for a book like this to come along. It is truly a great read and gives tremendous skeptic treatment to the 'science' of psychology. For a long time I've considered myself a skeptic, but I have been on the fence as how to treat psychology--art or science? This book helped me to see it very clearly as science. Psychology has a long way to go to shed the soot of pseudoscience that has collected upon it in the last century, but if more people can cut through to the heart of the matter, like Stanovich has done, then the sooner it will emerge and bloom.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent, enjoyable read
By David H. Peterzell PhD PhD on April 25, 2012
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I KNOW this is often used as a textbook in undergrad and even grad courses. That's fine, but I'd like to suggest that this a good read for anybody interested in critical thinking and psychology.

I'm a psych professor. I've been teaching and doing scientific psychology for years. I teach research design and methods, and critical thinking, among other things. But I bought this book for myself, and I'm glad I did. I kept running into friends' and acquaintances' misconceptions about psychology, as well as some aggressively uncritical thinking. That was especially true in some of the "integrative" worlds I've been drawn to (e.g., yoga, "mindfulness," meditation, "personal growth," post-modernist "thinking"), and some of the people who inhabit them. And then there was the ever-present notion that human behavior and mental phenomena could be adequately understood through unaided common sense or reference to the non-empirical pseudosciences. Having heard enough uncritical and magical stuff, I bought this book as a sort of mental defense...

This book is well worth it. It begins by noting "the Freud problem"; the fact that most people don't have a clue about psychology or the psychologists who are central to the field. They've heard of Freud, and that's about it. The author seems frustrated by that, and I share that frustration. The book covers all sorts of issues related to critical thinking, as well as evidence-based approaches and controlled experimentation. (As much as I like to use case studies in my own research, I found the rather critical chapter on case studies to be interesting, important and... correct, IMHO). My favorite chapter was the last one, "The Rodney Dangerfield of Sciences," with its coverage of pseudoscience and the "self-help" world.

Anyway, two thumbs up!
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5.0 out of 5 starsChapter 12 on Memory and False Memory Sydrome
By Douglas on June 19, 2013
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is the most compelling in this fine high school primer for Psychology 101. Very up-to-date and scientific data is employed to make for a rich and useful beginning psychology text. For example, the case of Sheri J. Storm is used to illustrate how unscrupulous or simply ill-educated therapists can convince a depressed or anxious patient that she has been sexually abused or performed in satanic rituals as a child, creating "repressed" memories which were not only not repressed, but which never really existed at all until the therapist planted them in the vulnerable mind of the patient, a process known as False Memory Syndrome. Such information is particularly vital during a time when unscrupulous and ill-educated therapists and writers seek to capitalize on the satanic ritual abuse meme once again, trying to take science back to the middle ages. Get this book and begin your education.
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I'm seriously enjoying the book. It's helping me think statistically. I really like that it's an ebook, too. I'm not as huge a fan of how expensive an ebook it is.

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