291
Subject Index
reviewing 55
self-assessment 104
service learning 176–7, 179
assumptions 14, 102–3, 166, 207, 252
attention focusing 28
attitude change studies 26
attitudes and behavior 51
attribution error 55, 145, 177, 181
see also fundamental attribution error
Auburn University 51
audience effects 219–20
audiovisual assignments 104–5
authority 51–2, 202–3
authorship practices 226
autism 14, 202–3
Barnum effect 26
barriers to critical thinking
addressing 152–8
in culture 17–18
psychological practice 12–14
psychological science 14–17
student-centered 51–4, 150–1
for teachers 11, 140
basketball player example 153
behaviors 13, 51, 63, 81
beliefs
epistemological 42–6
justification 39
media 204–5
modes of 201–4, 206–7
personal experience 118, 211–14, 217–18
a priori method 203
scientific literacy 199–200
scientific method 203–4
Best Practices for Teaching Statistics and Research
Methods in the Behavioral Sciences (Dunn,
Smith, & Beins) 156
Best/Worst assignment 237–40
bias 177, 207, 219, 268
biopsychosocial model 92–3
biotechnology 14–17
bipolar constructs 128–9, 132
Blind Men and Elephant parable 77, 85
Blood Done Sign My Name (Tyson) 252
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives 66, 89, 139
Board of Educational Affairs, APA 81–2
brain scanning 14, 15, 16
Brain Super-Charger 12
brains, individual variations 16
briefing reports 7
bystander intervention 208
The California Critical Thinking Dispositions
Inventory 73
The California Critical Thinking Skills Test:
College Level 73
Cambridge Thinking Skills Assessment 73
campus resources 227
capstone courses 137, 138, 144–7, 233–4
Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale
Short Form 228–9
careers in psychology
comparing courses 232–4
critical thinking 6
decision making 225–6
evaluation of impact 228–30
introductory course 226–30
relevance to 152
self-evaluation 231
at senior level 230–2
case study evaluation 24
Catcher in the Rye (Salinger) 252
cause–effect 63, 71, 106, 120–1, 207
Center for Assessment and Research
Studies 78–9
childcare 214
child-custody assessments 13
Children Are Reason Enough (CARE)
181–2
Children’s Defense Fund 206
chimpanzee genomes 18
cholera epidemic 1
Chronicle of Higher Education 18
circular reasoning 106
claims 63, 165–6, 212
cocurricular activities 233
code of conduct, APA 238
cognition 104, 183–4, 192–5, 214
Cognition in Daily Life Report 193
cognitive development 3, 37, 38, 41–3
cognitive misers 24
cognitive psychology 6, 106–7, 190
colds, cause of 203
collaboration 95, 164–5, 263, 264–5
Columbus, Christopher 202
communication skills 95, 168, 263
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