Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

195 Beyond Standard Lectures To simplify the report and task of keeping track of diary entries, we changed the activity into the ...

Jordan P. Lippman et al. 196 activities comes from discussion of meaning of the design and results during in-class discussions. ...

197 Beyond Standard Lectures Roediger, H. L., III, & McDermott, K. B. (1995). Creating false memories: Remembering words not ...

Critical Thinking People know what they believe, and they believe what they know. And, in some cases, they are wrong. For exampl ...

Bernard C. Beins 200 (National Science Education Standards, 1995). These are desirable outcomes; the impor- tant question is whe ...

201 Why We Believe: Fostering Scientific Thought and perception, psychology students develop science literacy that extends into ...

Bernard C. Beins 202 Unfortunately for students’ knowledge (but fortunately for lemmings), these rodents do not commit suicide, ...

203 Why We Believe: Fostering Scientific Thought because of the pronouncements of authorities. This type of material is useful w ...

Bernard C. Beins 204 As all researchers know, not every question is amenable to an empirical, scientific approach. If one cannot ...

205 Why We Believe: Fostering Scientific Thought Clearly, the problem of comprehensible and accurate presentation of research re ...

Bernard C. Beins 206 documented cases of “mutant statistics” in the popular press. These are statistics that are transformed fro ...

207 Why We Believe: Fostering Scientific Thought a priori method, and the scientific method. That is, what do they know that ari ...

Bernard C. Beins 208 Evaluating the Popular Media Most students who have completed the introductory psychology course have heard ...

209 Why We Believe: Fostering Scientific Thought Best, J. (2001). Damned lies and statistics: Untangling numbers from the media, ...

Bernard C. Beins 210 National Science Education Standards. (1995). Retrieved February 28, 2007 from http://books. nap.edu/readin ...

Critical thinking is not “content neutral.” A number of well-known cognitive and emotional biases influence the ability to evalu ...

Paul C. Smith & Kris Vasquez 212 At first glance, these two situations may seem to have little in common, as they involve di ...

213 Teaching Critical Thinking About Difficult Topics the examples used to teach critical thinking skills focus too strongly on ...

Paul C. Smith & Kris Vasquez 214 What exactly is it that makes some of these beliefs fair game for research and critical thi ...

215 Teaching Critical Thinking About Difficult Topics Listening to the arguments presented certainly provides evidence of poor r ...