A Dictionary of Psychology
Author(s): Andrew Colman
With over 11,000 authoritative and up-to-date entries, this best-selling dictionary covers all branches of psychology, including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, criminology, neuroscience, and statistics. It features comprehensive coverage of key areas, for example, cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods. Entries provide clear and concise definitions, word origins and derivations, and they are extensively cross-referenced for ease of use. In addition, over 80 illustrations complement the text. Detailed appendices follow the A-Z dictionary and include a list of 800 commonly used abbreviations and symbols, and a list of phobias and phobic stimuli with full definitions. Now containing an appendix of recommended web links, which are accessed and kept up to date via the Dictionary of Psychology website, this edition is loaded with more information than any other dictionary of its kind. A Dictionary of Psychology is an invaluable work of reference for students and teachers of psychology and related disciplines, professionals, and is ideally suited to anyone with an interest in the workings of the mind.
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Review of previous edition:
"Comprehensive, sound, readable, and up-to-date, this is probably the best single-volume dictionary of its kind.Weighty in substance, the work is nonetheless manageable; Colman uses words with grace and economy...Cross references are handled effectively...Browsers will find much food for thought and some intellectual treats...Eager to teach and entertain, Colman offers a list of do-it-yourself demonstrations in the preface. Essential wherever psychology matters."--Library Journal
"An authoritative style, an ability to communicate in clear but concise terms, and extensive knowledge of the subject matter...Andrew Colman appears to possess all of these qualities and his Dictionary of Psychology is the impressive result...The book has many strengths and is certainly to be recommended...I am pleased to have it on my bookshelf."--THES (UK)
"A useful first port of call."--The Psychologist (UK)
"This book does not give bare definitions, it clothes them with context."--New Scientist (UK)
"The most comprehensive single-volume reference to psychology combines psychiatry and pschoanalysis under one broad umbrella, addressing 10,500 topics"--Forecast (UK)
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PREFACE; ADVISORY EDITORS; ILLUSTRATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GENERAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LAYOUT OF ENTRIES; GREEK ALPHABET; THE DICTIONARY; APPENDIX I: PHOBIAS AND PHOBIC STIMULI; APPENDIX II: ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS; APPENDIX III: USEFUL WEB LINKS; PRINCIPAL SOURCES
General Fields
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- : Oxford University Press
- : OUP Australia and New Zealand
- : 0.653
- : 01 February 2009
- : 196mm X 129mm X 51mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrew Colman
- : Paperback
- : 3rd Revised edition
- : English
- : 150.3
- : 896
- : over 80 b&w line drawings