Product Description
Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (4th edition)
Editor/s: Andrew M. Colman
Format: Paperback
Including more than 11,000 definitions, this authoritative and up-to-date dictionary covers all branches of psychology. Clear, concise descriptions for each entry offer extensive coverage of key areas including cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods. The range of entries extends to related disciplines including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, the neurosciences, and statistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced for ease of use, and cover word origins and derivations as well as definitions. More than 100 illustrations complement the text.
This fourth edition has incorporated a large number of significant revisions and additions, many in response to the 2013 publication of the American Psychiatric Association's latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, bringing the Dictionary fully up to date with the most recent literature of the subject.
In addition to the alphabetical entries, the dictionary also includes appendices covering over 800 commonly used abbreviations and symbols, as well as a list of phobias and phobic stimuli, with definitions.
Comprehensive and clearly written, this dictionary is an invaluable work of reference for students, lecturers, and the general reader with an interest in psychology.
Features:
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Over 11,000 definitions of a wide range of terms and concepts in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis
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A winner of the American Libraries Association 'Outstanding Reference Source' award
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Covers cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods
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Over 800 abbreviations listed in a separate appendix for easy reference
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Comprehensive list of phobias and phobic stimuli
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Word origins and derivations supplied
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Over 100 illustrations
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Many of the revisions to this edition reflect the new definitions of mental disorders in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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Over 200 new and 750 revised entries, from Bateman's principles and epigenetics to nominative determinism and the Taylor aggression paradigm
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The existing appendices have been revised and updated, and more than 10 new illustrations have been added.
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