How to Think Straight About Psychology
内容简介
Teaching students to become better consumers of psychologicalresearch. Keith Stanovich's widely used and highly acclaimed bookpresents a short introduction to the critical thinking skills thatwill help students to better understand the subject matter ofpsychology. How to Think Straight about Psychology, 10e helpsstudents recognize pseudoscience and be able to distinguish it fromtrue psychological research, aiding students to become morediscriminating consumers of psychological information. LearningGoals Upon completing this book, readers should be able to: *Evaluate psychological claims they encounter in the general media.* Distinguish between pseudoscience and true psychologicalresearch. * Apply psychological knowledge to better understandevents in the world around them.
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作者简介
Keith E. Stanovich is currently Emeritus Professor of HumanDevelopment and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto. Heis the author of over 175 scientific articles and seven books.Stanovich is the 2012 recipient of the E. L. Thorndike CareerAchievement Award from the American Psychological Association andthe recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education. In 2000 hereceived the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from theSociety for the Scientific Study of Reading. Stanovich is a Fellowof the American Psychological Association (Divisions 3, 7, 8, and15) and the Association for Psychological Science.
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读书文摘
随机分配是真是实验所必需的条件。实验人员将被试分为实验组和控制组，当每一名被试被分到实验组的机会和被分到控制组的机会相等时，则实现了随机分配。 如果一个研究中使用了随机分配的方法，那么它就是一项真实验，如果没有使用，那么它是一项相关调查。许多使用随机取样的研究没有使用随机分配，那是因为它们只是调查性研究，只在寻找关联——也就是说，这些研究属于相关调查研究。
绝大多数人认为泛化的人格特征描述都是正确的，并把这些特征视为自己所独有的。
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