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Part V Thinking Critical Beyond the Classroom 223
19 Thinking Critically About Careers in Psychology 225
Deborah S. Briihl, Claudia J. Stanny, Kiersten A. Jarvis,
Maria Darcy, and Ronald W. Belter
Part VI Critical Briefings: Short Reports on Critical Thinking 235
1 Best and Worst: Learning to Think Like a Psychologist 237
Dana Gross
2 Personal Mission Statements as Tools for Developing
Writing and Reflection Skills 241
Lawrence Benjamin Lewis and Elizabeth Yost Hammer
3 A Module-Based Research Project: Modeling Critical
Thinking in Psychology 247
Nina Lamson and Katherine Kipp
4 Effectively Using Literature Circles in the Psychology Classroom 251
Rebecca Wenrich Wheeler
5 Introducing Controversial Issues in Psychology
Through Debate and Reflection 257
Sherri B. Lantinga
6 The Critical Thinking Lab: Developing Student Skills
Through Practical Application 263
Todd J. Wilkinson, Bryan J. Dik, and Andrew P. Tix
7 Encouraging Students to Think Critically About Psychotherapy:
Overcoming Naïve Realism 267
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Jeffrey M. Lohr, and Bunmi O. Olatunji
8 Effectiveness of a Web-Based Critical Thinking Module 273
Beth Dietz-Uhler
9 An Introductory Exercise for Promoting Critical
Thinking About Psychological Measurement 277
Jeffrey D. Holmes
Author Index 281
Subject Index 290
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