基本信息

• 商品名称：这才是心理学( 1版英文版高等学校心理学教学指导委员会用书)
• 作者：(加)基思·斯坦诺维奇
• 定价：68
• 出版社：人民邮电
• 书号：9787115511843

其他参考信息（以实物为准）

• 出版时间：2019-06-01
• 印刷时间：2019-06-01
• 版次：1
• 印次：1
• 开本：16开
• 页数：220
• 字数：320千字

编辑推荐语

首版于1983年，30多年来一直被奉为心理学入门经典，在 大学中享有盛誉，被 500多所教育机构采用；以幽默生动的语言，结合一些妙趣横生、贴近生活的实例，深入浅出地介绍了心理学中的批判性思维，告诉你什么才是真正的心理学，拒 “伪心理学”清华大学心理学系主任彭凯平教授作序 ，北京大学心理学院魏坤琳（Dr. 魏）特别 ，书单来了、科学松鼠会等知名媒体专文 ！新版 1版，增加全新的案例和290条参考文献，英文原版，原汁原味呈现原著精华。

内容提要

在 的大众媒体和图书市场上，到处充斥着关于潜能提升、心理操控、色彩星座、催眠读心等伪装成心理学的主题， 有一些伪心理学家、所谓的心理治疗师打着心理学的旗号欺世盗名，从中渔利。在浩如烟海、良莠不齐的心理学信息面前，如何拨除迷雾，去伪存真，成为一个明智的心理学信息的消费者？这本书将教给你科学实用的批判性思维技能，将真正的心理学研究从伪心理学中区分出来，告诉你什么才是真正的心理学。
《这才是心理学》首版于1983年，30多年来一直被奉为心理学入门经典，在 大学中享有盛誉，现在呈现在读者面前的是英文 1版。这本书并不同于一般的心理学导论类教材，很多内容是心理学课堂上不曾讲授的，也是许多心理学教师在教学中感到只可意会而不可言传的。作者正是从此初衷出发，以幽默生动的语言，结合一些妙趣横生、贴近生活的实例，深入浅出地介绍了可证伪性、操作主义、实证主义、安慰剂效应、相关和因果、概率推理等心理学中的基本原则。与上一版相比， 1版 新了新的研究资料和实例以及290篇参考文献。
《这才是心理学》不仅适合于心理学专业的学生，有助于建立心理学研究中必要的批判性思维技能与意识，而其通俗易读性也 适合所有对心理学感兴趣的读者，它将帮助你纠正对心理学的种种误解，学会独立地评估心理学信息，用科学的精神和方法理解自己和他人的行为。此外，由于心理学与其他学科的共通性，本书也不失为一本精彩有趣的科学哲学类读物。

作者简介

基思·斯坦诺维奇（Keith E. Stanovich），目前担任加拿大多伦多大学人类发展与应用心理学的 首席教授，他的研究领域是推理和阅读的心理学机制。他于2010年获得格威尔美尔教育奖（Grawemeyer Award in Education）。他至今已发表了200多篇科学论文。在一项对于论文引用率的调查中，斯坦诺维奇位列引用率 高的50位发展心理学家之一，也是25位高产的教育心理学家之一。他所撰写的《这才是心理学》（How to Think Straight about Psychology）一书被 300多所心理学高等教育机构采用。

目录

Contents

Preface xiv

1 Psychology Is Alive and Well

(and Doing Fine Among the Sciences)1

The Freud Problem 1

The Diversity of Modern Psychology 3

Implications of Diversity 4

Unity in Science 4

What, Then, Is Science 6

Systematic Empiricism 7

Publicly Verifiable Knowledge: Replication and Peer Review8

Empirically Solvable Problems: Scientists' Search for Testable Theories 10

Psychology and Folk Wisdom: The Problem with “Common Sense” 11

Psychology as a Young Science 15

Summary 16



2 Falsifiability: How to Foil Little

Green Men in the Head17

Theories and the Falsifiability Criterion 18

The Theory of Knocking Rhythms 19

Freud and Falsifiability 20

The Little Green Men 22

Not All Confirmations Are Equal 23

Falsifiability and Folk Wisdom 24

The Freedom to Admit a Mistake 25

Thoughts Are Cheap 27

Errors in Science: Getting Closer to the Truth 28

Summary 30



3 Operationism and Essentialism:

“But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean ” 31

Why Scientists Are Not Essentialists 31

Essentialists Like to Argue About the Meaning of Words 32

Operationists Link Concepts to Observable Events 32

Reliability and Validity 34

Direct and Indirect Operational Definitions 37

Scientific Concepts Evolve 38

Operational Definitions in Psychology 40

Operationism as a Humanizing Force 42

Essentialist Questions and the Misunderstanding of Psychology 43

Summary 44



4 Testimonials and Case Study Evidence:

Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi 45

The Place of the Case Study 47

Why Testimonials Are Worthless: Placebo Effects 48

The “Vividness” Problem 51

The Overwhelming Impact of the Single Case 53

Why Vivid Anecdotes and Testimonials Are So Potent 54

The Amazing Randi: Fighting Fire with Fire 55

Testimonials Open the Door to Pseudoscience 57

Summary 62



5 Correlation and Causation: Birth

Control by the Toaster Method 63

The Third-Variable Problem 64

Why Goldberger's Evidence Was Better 65

The Directionality Problem 68

Selection Bias 70

Summary 72



6 Getting Things Under Control:

The Case of Clever Hans 74

Snow and Cholera 75

Comparison, Control, and Manipulation 76

Random Assignment in Conjunction with

Manipulation Defines the True Experiment 77

The Importance of Control Groups 79

The Case of Clever Hans, the Wonder Horse 83

Clever Hans in the 1990s and in the Present Day 85

Prying Variables Apart: Special Conditions 88

Intuitive Physics 90

Intuitive Psychology 91

Summary 93



7 “But It's Not Real Life!”:

The “Artificiality” Criticism and Psychology94

Why Natural Isn't Always Necessary 94

The Random Sample Versus Random Assignment Confusion96

Theory-Driven Research Versus Direct Applications 97

Applications of Psychological Theory 99

The “College Sophomore” Problem 101

The Real-Life and College Sophomore Problems in Perspective 104

Summary 105



8 Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome:

The Importance of Converging Evidence 106

The Connectivity Principle 107

A Consumer's Rule: Beware of Violations of Connectivity 108

The “Great-Leap” Model Versus the Gradual-Synthesis Model 109

Converging Evidence: Progress Despite Flaws 110

Types of Converging Evidence 113

Scientific Consensus 118

Methods and the Convergence Principle 118

The Progression to More Powerful Methods 119

A Counsel Against Despair 122

Summary 124



9 The Misguided Search for the “Magic Bullet”:

The Issue of Multiple Causation 125

The Concept of Interaction 126

The Temptation of the Single-Cause Explanation 128

Summary 131



10 The Achilles' Heel of Human

Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning 132

“Person-Who” Statistics 135

Probabilistic Reasoning and the Misunderstanding of Psychology 136

Psychological Research on Probabilistic Reasoning 138

Insufficient Use of Probabilistic Information 139

Failure to Use Sample-Size Information 140

The Gambler's Fallacy 142

A Further Word About Statistics and Probability 144

Summary 146



11 The Role of Chance in Psychology 147

The Tendency to Try to Explain Chance Events 147

Explaining Chance: Illusory Correlation and the Illusion of Control 150

Chance and Psychology 151

Coincidence 151

Personal Coincidences 153

Accepting Error in Order to Reduce Error: Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction 155

Summary 160



12 The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences 162

Psychology's Image Problem 163

Psychology and Parapsychology 163

The Self-Help Literature 165

Recipe Knowledge 166

Psychology and Other Disciplines 167

Our Own Worst Enemies 168

Our Own Worst Enemies, Part II: Psychology

Has Become an Ideological Monoculture 172

Isn't Everyone a Psychologist Implicit Theories of Behavior 178

The Source of Resistance to Scientific Psychology 179

The Final Word 182

References 183

Name Index 210

Subject Index 217