New PDF release: A Dictionary of Psychology (Oxford Paperback Reference)

By Andrew M. Colman

ISBN-10: 0192806327

ISBN-13: 9780192806321

ISBN-10: 0199534063

ISBN-13: 9780199534067

With over 11,000 authoritative and up to date entries, this best-selling dictionary covers all branches of psychology, together with psychoanalysis, psychiatry, criminology, neuroscience, and facts. It gains complete assurance of key components, for instance, cognition, sensation and conception, emotion and motivation, studying and talents, language, psychological illness, and learn equipment. Entries offer transparent and concise definitions, notice origins and derivations, they usually are
extensively cross-referenced for ease of use. furthermore, over eighty illustrations supplement the text.

Detailed appendices persist with the A-Z dictionary and comprise a listing of 800 favourite abbreviations and logos, and a listing of phobias and phobic stimuli with complete definitions. Now containing an appendix of prompt net hyperlinks, that are accessed and saved brand new through the Dictionary of Psychology site, this version is loaded with additional info than the other dictionary of its variety. A Dictionary of Psychology is a useful paintings of reference for college students and
teachers of psychology and similar disciplines, execs, and is very best to someone with an curiosity within the workings of the mind.

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