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Psychology Dictionary Resources
As with any other academic discipline, psychology contains it's fair share of subject specific language, terminology and jargon. The aim of this page, therfore, is to provide links to the best free online psychology dictionaries and psychology glossaries.
All of the featured definitions (over 1200 of them) are cross referenced and linked for ease of use and cover most of the major terms and concepts that students will encounter when studying psychology. You can access this extremely useful resource by clicking on the following link.
Psychology Dictionary / Glossary for Students
(Many thanks to Gary Hadler, Principal of the ITS Tutorial School for letting me know about this very impressive psychology dictionary)
Having contributed so much for so long to the development of the lexicon of psychology, APA has long envisioned the compilation and publication of its own dictionary. Most recently in the past 10 years, APA Books has been involved in a major scholarly and editorial undertaking to bring the APA Dictionary not just to APA members, but also to psychology students, allied behavioral health professionals, and the general public.
Under the guidance of an editorial board of nearly 100 scholars, researchers, and practitioners, APA reference editorial staff has worked in concert with Market House Books, Ltd.— an English firm with over 30 years’ experience in compiling reference books for both British and American markets — to bring out this invaluable addition to your reference shelf.
Who Needs This Resource?
Academicians, researchers, clinicians • Undergraduates, psych majors, graduate students, and post-grads • Allied mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, social workers, and counselors • Professionals in education, medicine, and law • Academic and public libraries • All readers with a general interest in psychology.
What Features Will You Find?
25,000 terms and definitions encompassing such areas of research and application as personality, development, interpersonal relations, memory, motivation, perception, cognition, language and communication, among others • Coverage of psychological concepts, processes, and therapies across all the major subdisciplines of psychology — including clinical, experimental, social, developmental, personality, school and educational, industrial and organizational, health, among many others • Thousands of cross-references, directing the user to synonyms and antonyms, acronyms and abbreviations, related terms and concepts • A Guide to Use, explaining formal elements and editorial practices • Four Appendixes, each gathering entries thematically into one synoptic listing, covering biographies; institutions, associations, and organizations; psychological therapies and interventions; and psychological tests and assessment instruments.
See following link for more details:
The APA Dictionary of Psychology
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