Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

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prophet was to test him/ her. If his/ her predicted event doesn't occur, sucks for them.

* James Randi uses Moses's wisdom and exemplifies skepticism. He's tested and debunked a variety of psychic phenomena. For example, he asks someone who can see "auras" above people's heads to find people behind walls.

* Scientists believe in curious skepticism, being skeptical but not cynical, being open but not gullible, and always asking for evidence, constantly questioning, "What do you mean? How do you know?"

* Copernicus and Newton's religious convictions made them humble before nature and skeptical of mere human authority.

* Critical Thinking thinking does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions; rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.

Objective 4:

* Theory an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations; simplifies and summarizes.

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our concerns lie less with particular behaviors than with the general principles that help explain many behaviors.

Objective 6:

* Culture the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next.

* Even when specific attitudes and behaviors vary across cultures, as they often do, the underlying processes are much the same.

* Psychologically as well as biologically, women and men are overwhelmingly similar. Culture further bends the genders.

Objective 7:

* Psychologists study animals both because they're fascinating and because they teach us more about humans. Animal experiments ...

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