Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Science and Pseudoscience in Psychology32APSWI927/Course description

Course description
This course emphasizes the use of critical thinking skills for distinguishing science from pseudoscience in psycholo-gy. Picking up where Introduction to Clinical Psychology (PSY 30314) left off, this course takes up the torch of Popper, Meehl, and Lakatos to cover topics such as: (a) controversial therapeutic, assessment and diagnostic tech-niques, (b) weak theories, and (c) myths from "pop" psychology and every day life.

Perhaps most importantly, we will begin to “walk the walk. This semester, you will learn how to fix and/or create Wikipedia pages to reflect the most up-to-date scientific data in clinical science. This is a way to inform the gen-eral public about science and pseudoscience and, in turn, make a real difference in the world. Your contribution will reach more people, and likely have a greater impact on the greater good than any journal article (which essen-tially 0% of the general population reads) possibly could. Indeed, Wikipedia is one of the most used sources for obtaining information about science for the general public. Here’s your chance to use what you’ve learned and make a dent in all that pseudoscience our there!

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