You save. Current Stock:. Increase Quantity: Decrease Quantity:. Finally, I have revised all three appendices. The definitions are as simple as possible, but no simpler than that. Many of the concepts of psychology are inherently difficult and, if they are to be treated seriously, they ought not to be oversimplified or trivialized. In recognition of this, the definitions attempt to provide enough information to enable the serious reader to grasp the fundamental meaning and significance of even the more difficult concepts.
Thus, for example, the entry under the headword blood—brain barrier avoids defining it in the usual, but misleading, way as a membrane and instead provides a detailed description of this remarkable but complex mechanism. In the same vein, the peg-word mnemonic is explained in enough detail to enable the reader to use it in practice; the lateral geniculate nucleus is not dismissed in a single sentence as a type of nerve cell, as in other dictionaries, but is described more accurately in terms of its structure and functions; and the visual cortex is not merely identified with vision and located at the back of the head but is given a full and detailed description.
The entries under information theory, prospect theory, and signal detection theory provide enough information for the reader to grasp the fundamental ideas behind the theories and to understand how they actually work, and the same approach is adopted with other difficult terms. The aim is always to respect genuine difficulties and complexities but to provide the clearest possible definitions using the simplest possible language relative to the ideas being discussed.
Two unusual features of this dictionary deserve mention here. Second, the entries are far more extensively cross-referenced than has been customary in earlier dictionaries. For example, the entry under visual illusion includes cross- references to every particular visual illusion described and often illustrated elsewhere in the dictionary, and the entry under cranial nerve is cross-referenced to all twelve of the human cranial nerves, each of which has its own separate entry.
The purpose of the cross-references is to enable a reader who has looked up a word to obtain additional information that is either directly or indirectly relevant to it, and in general to encourage the use of the dictionary as an aid to serious scholarship. The selection of headwords for this dictionary was not an easy task. I had to discard many words that could have gone in, and hard choices had to be made.
Dilemmas were resolved by asking the following two questions: Is the word used in psychological books and articles? Are readers likely to want to look it up? The headwords that were finally selected include the core terminology of psychology, together with technical words that originate from other disciplines but are often used by psychologists.
Many of the technical terms of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, pharmacology, computing, optometry, ethology, genetics, statistics, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, and anthropology have migrated into psychology and become partly naturalized there, and the most important ones are included in this dictionary. The basic vocabulary of psychoanalysis is included in this dictionary, although—in fact, partly because—other dictionaries of psychology omit most psychoanalytic terms and concepts altogether and treat the ones that are included only superficially.
In this dictionary, terms introduced by Sigmund Freud are defined in sufficient detail to convey their meanings without trivialization, and key terms coined by subsequent psychoanalysts, including Jung, Adler, Erikson, Klein, Fairbairn, Winnicott, Kohut, Lacan, and Reich, are also included.
Jung, edited by Read, Fordham, and Adler, using arabic volume and paragraph numbers, as is conventional in Jungian literature. Take the journey and find yourself becoming actively involved with the material as you develop a basic understanding of psychology that will help you succeed in this course and enrich your life. Looking for textbooks answers? Looking for practice exams? Do you need help on homework? Description In the fifth edition of Psychology, Stephen Franzoi continues to provide students with a scholarly, engaging text that shows them how psychological concepts can be applied to their lives.
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