APA College Dictionary of Psychology

APA College Dictionary of Psychology by American Pscyhological Association. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781433804335.

This is a compact and economic students version of the critically acclaimed APA Dictionary of Psychology. It contains 5,000 entries offering clear and authoritative definitions - including many revised and updated definitions from the parent dictionary. It includes about 200 entries that have never appeared in the parent dictionary or its abridgment, the APA Concise Dictionary of Psychology, selected through comparison with some of the best and most popular textbooks currently in use on college campuses. It offers basic coverage across 90 sub disciplines of psychology - with special emphasis on field typically encountered in undergraduate studies: general, social, developmental, abnormal, and cognitive psychology, as well as neuroscience and basic methodology and statistics. There is an appendix listing major figures in the history of psychology and their relation to outside disciplines and professions.