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Critical Thinking Resources

In Psychology

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Online Articles/Essays

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Bibliography
Outcomes Assessment
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Online Articles/Essays

• The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice: On-Line Articles
  http://www.srmhp.org/online-articles.html

Online Teaching Activities

• PESTS Teaching Activities
  http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/ricker/pests/teaching/teaching_activities.html

Online Tutorials

• Ricker, J. P. (2003). Critical thinking lessons for Psychology Applied to Modern Life Adjustment in the 21st Century by Wayne Weiten & Margaret A. Lloyd. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  http://tinyurl.com/y2vlpx

• Ricker, J. P. (2004). Critical thinking lessons for Psychology: Themes & Variations (6th ed.) by Wayne Weiten. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
  http://tinyurl.com/uy2k

• Grant McEwan Community College: Critical Thinking in Psychology
  http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/courses/psych104/think.htm

Bibliography

• Bell, J. (1991). Evaluating psychological information: Sharpening your critical thinking skills. Boston: Allyn & Bacon. 
  BF441 .B44 1991: SMC

• Benjafield, J. G. (1994). Thinking critically about research methods. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

• Gambrill, E. (2005). Critical thinking in clinical practice: Improving the quality of judgments and decisions (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

• Gambrill, E. (2006). Evidence-based practice and policy: Choices ahead. Research on Social Work Practice, 16, 338-357.

• Keeley, S. M. (1995). Asking the right questions in abnormal psychology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

• Levy, D. A. (1997). Tools of critical thinking: Metathoughts for psychology. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
  BF441 .L484 1997: MCC

• Lilienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., & Lohr, J. M. (Eds.) (2003). Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology. New York: The Guilford Press.

• Marton, J. (2004). Fables for developing skeptical and critical thinking in psychology. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing.

• McBurney, D. (1996). How to think like a psychologist: Critical thinking in psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
  BF38.5 .M445 1996: PVC

• Meehl, P. E. (1954). Clinical vs. statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Myers, D. G. (2002). Intuition: Its powers and perils. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Ruscio, J. (2006). Critical thinking in psychology: Separating sense from nonsense (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth.
  BF441 .R87 2006: PCC

• Slife, B. D. Slife, Reber, J. S., & Richardson, F. C. (2004). Critical Thinking About Psychology: Hidden Assumptions and Plausible Alternatives. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

• Smith, R. A. (2002). Challenging your preconceptions: Thinking critically about psychology (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

• Stanovich, K. E. (2004). How to think straight about psychology (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson.

• Tavris, C. (2000). Psychobabble and biobunk: Using psychology to think critically about issues in the news (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

• Turk, D. C., & Salovey, P. (Eds.) (1988). Reasoning, inference, and judgment in clinical psychology. New York: Free Press.

Outcomes Assessment

• Outcomes Assessment With A Focus on Critical Thinking in Psychology: Sources And Ideas
  http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/bell2.html

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Web Sites

• PESTS (Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically)
  http://www.scottsdalecc.edu/ricker/pests/
  See especially PESTS Teaching Resources

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