A dictionary of psychology / Andrew M. Colman
- Bib ID:
- 3670490
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Colman, Andrew M
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2006
- [xiv], 861 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0192806327
- 9780192806321
- 0198610351
- 9780198610359
- Series:
- Oxford paperback reference.
- Summary:
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"With over 11,000 entries, and over 90 illustrations, this dictionary covers all branches of psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, the neurosciences, and psychoanalysis. Now in its second edition, it has been completely updated to include over 400 new entries. This volume is an essential tool for students and professional psychologists, and an ideal reference source on psychology for the general reader." "Topics covered include sensation & perception, emotion & motivation, cognition, learning & skills, mental disorders, phobias, neuroanatomy & neurophysiology, psychopharmacology, research methods & statistics. It includes important new terms such as episodic buffer, positive psychology, and social cognitive neuroscience. Also, appendices that cover phobias and phobic stimuli, as well as a list of over 800 abbreviations and symbols commonly used in psychology are included, and word origins and derivations are supplied."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
- Machine derived contents note: Contents Preface vii Advisory Editors and Illustration Acknowledgements x Acknowledgements xi Layout of Entries xiii Greek Alphabet xiv The Dictionary 1 Appendix I: Phobias and phobic stimuli 725 Appendix II: Abbreviations and symbols 741 Principal sources 755.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 2001.
- Bibliography: p. [858]-861.
- Electronic version available to subscribers at Oxford Reference Online.
- Subject:
- Psychology -- Dictionaries
- Also Titled:
- Oxford dictionary of psychology
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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