Including more than 11,000 definitions, this authoritative as well as up-to-date dictionary covers all branches of psychology. Clear, concise descriptions for each entry offer extensive coverage of key areas including cognition, sensation as well as perception, emotion as well as motivation, learning as well as skills, language, mental disorder, as well as research methods. The range of entries extends to related disciplines including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, the neurosciences, as well as statistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced for ease of use, as well as cover word origins as well as derivations as well as definitions. More than 100 illustrations complement the text
This fourth edition has incorporated a large number of significant revisions as well as additions, many in response to the 2013 publication of the American Psychiatric Association’s latest edition ofDiagnostic as well as 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 as well as symbols, as well as a list of phobias as well as phobic stimuli, with definitions
Comprehensive as well as clearly written, this dictionary is an invaluable work of reference for students, lecturers, as well as the general reader with an interest in psychology
