"A Clairemont book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Guidelines for critical thinking -- Psychology and the popular press -- Statistical seduction -- Anatomy is destiny - or is it? -- Is what you see what you get? -- Can hypnosis help me remember? -- Conditioning and advertising -- Biases in memory -- IQ is forever - isn't it? -- Understanding our own motives -- Evaluating codependency -- Is bibliotherapy helpful? -- Social influence tactics.

Your students will strengthen their critical thinking skills as they apply them to psychological issues such as hypnosis and repressed memory, statistical seduction, the validity of pop psychology, and many others..Organized to fit with the traditional chapters of most introductory psychology texts, the book covers critical thinking within the context of research methods and statistics, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, altered states of consciousness, learning, memory, testing, motivation, therapy, and abnormal and social psychology.