Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology: A Handbook of Best Practices

Joseph A. Mayo 132 The broad range of bipolar meaning dimensions inherent in the subject matter of other psychology courses make ...

133 The Repertory Grid Clustering) not only permits inferences to be drawn on whether two constructs are applied similarly to di ...

Joseph A. Mayo 134 As a versatile assessment tool, the RGT can be used not only to “provide snapshots of construct systems at a ...

135 The Repertory Grid Kenny, V. (1984). An introduction to the personal construct theory of George A. Kelly. Irish Journal of P ...

Becoming a critical thinker is no simple task. It does not happen in a flash, overnight, or even in a 15-week semester. A colleg ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 138 of their own thinking processes. A basic premise of this chapter is that explicit teaching about CT c ...

139 Critical Thinking in Critical Courses Reading There are several good textbooks for the beginning teacher of psychology. Fors ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 140 objective, as is so often the case, then we want to see critical thinking happening, for example in s ...

141 Critical Thinking in Critical Courses and collectively grapple with the concept of CT. Each of us is a better teacher when w ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 142 Critical thinking abilities refer to the person’s thinking competencies. These abilities correspond c ...

143 Critical Thinking in Critical Courses Providing the framework to students will make salient the CT abilities that the course ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 144 told that the objective of the course is twofold: (a) to introduce them to the various topics of soci ...

145 Critical Thinking in Critical Courses a psychologist. Instead, some aspire to careers in law, medicine, social work, educati ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 146 perspectives on a prescriptive issue, and to identify and weigh relevant empirical evidence in the ps ...

147 Critical Thinking in Critical Courses showcase critical thinking abilities first acquired and later fine-tuned in lessons fr ...

Janet E. Kuebli et al. 148 Halpern, D. F. (1996). Thought and knowledge: An introduction to critical thinking (3rd ed.). Mahwah, ...

Statistics and research methods courses are constants in psychology curricula (Perlman & McCann, 2005; Stoloff, Sanders, &am ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 150 of the present chapter is to discuss ways that statistics and research methods instructors can teach ...

151 Statistics & Research Methods methods instructors consider barriers that may preclude their students from learning how t ...

Bryan K. Saville et al. 152 Real-World Connections are not Obvious Considerable research suggests that students view “real-world ...