TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,David A.
TI  - Tools of critical thinking: metathoughts for psychology 
SN  - 0205260837 (pbk.)
U1  - 150 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Allyn and Bacon
KW  - Critical thinking
KW  - Problem solving
KW  - Thought and thinking
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-256) and indexes; Foreword; Thomas Szasz --; Introduction; Robert Carson --; I; The Evaluative Bias of Language: To Describe Is to Prescribe --; II; The Reification Error: Comparing Apples and Existentialism --; III; Multiple Levels of Description: The Simultaneity of Physical and Psychological Events --; IV; The Nominal Fallacy and Tautologous Reasoning: To Name Something Isn't to Explain It --; V; Differentiating Dichotomous Variables and Continuous Variables: Black and White, or Shades of Grey? --; VI; Consider the Opposite: To Contrast Is to Define --; VII; The Similarity-Uniqueness Paradox: All Phenomena Are Both Similar and Different --; VIII; The Naturalistic Fallacy: Blurring the Line between "Is" and "Should" --; IX; The Barnum Effect: "One-Size-Fits-All" Personality Interpretations --; X; Correlation Does Not Prove Causation: Confusing "What" with "Why" --; XI; Bi-Directional Causation: Causal Loops, Healthy Spirals, and Vicious Cycles --; XII; Multiple Causation: Not "Either/Or," But "Both/And" --; XIII; Degrees of Causation: Not All Causes Are Created Equal --; XIV; Multiple Pathways of Causation: Different Causes, Same Effects --; XV; The Fundamental Attribution Error: Underestimating the Impact of External Influences --; XVI; The Intervention-Causation Fallacy: The Cure Doesn't Prove the Cause --; XVII; The Consequence-Intentionality Fallacy: The Effect Doesn't Prove the Intent --; XVIII; The "If I Feel It, It Must Be True" Fallacy: The Truth Hurts; But So Do Lies --; XIX; The Spectacular Explanation Fallacy: Extraordinary Events Do Not Require Extraordinary Causes --; XX; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Two Methods of Inference --; XXI; Reactivity: To Observe Is to Disturb --; XXII; The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: When Expectations Create Reality --; XXIII; The Assimilation Bias: Viewing the World through Schema-Colored Glasses --; XXIV; The Confirmation Bias: Ye Shall Find Only What Ye Shall Seek --; XXV; The Belief Perseverance Effect: The Rat Is Always Right --; XXVI; The Hindsight Bias: Predicting a Winner after the Race Is Finished --; XXVII; The Representativeness Bias: Fits and Misfits of Categorization --; XXVIII; The Availability Bias: The Persuasive Power of Vivid Events --; XXIX; The Insight Fallacy: To Understand Something Isn't Necessarily to Change It --; XXX; Every Decision Is a Trade-Off: Take Stock of Pluses and Minuses --; Epilogue: Concluding Meta-Metathoughts --; Metathoughts Summary and Antidote Table --; App. 1; "Pervasive Labeling Disorder"
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