- Hardcover: 896 pages
- Publisher: Viking (31 Oct 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0670801364
- ISBN-13: 978-0670801367
- Product Dimensions: 50.8 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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'Provides keen insights on concepts...I highly recommend it' Henry L Roediger III, President, American Psychological Society 'Reber brings humour and common sense to defining some 17,000 terms...[it] deserves to become a classic of its kind' The Times Education Supplement
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New and revised edition, gives definitions and examples of the past use for over 17,000 terms used in psychology, psychiatry and related fields including terms borrowed from other disciplines and everyday language.
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book saw me through my undergraduate years and is still useful now that I'm postdoctoral! The clarity of expression and the range of individual entries provide an excellent start to any essay or topic. There are also some gems which you'll come across by accident - try the entry for psychoceramics!
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Reber's text is thoroughly excellent; if possible, an improvement even on the second edition. Terms and perspectives are clearly explained with the occasional thought provoking comment thrown in (see the entry for 'binding'!). Moreover, Reber opts for a personal prose which distances the text from more stock, 'cookbook' competitors. Highly recommended and valuable at all levels of professional attainment. Buy it -- you won't regret it.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I'm currently a Psychology degree student and there is not one item I could think of that is more helpful to my course than this dictionary is. It contains over 17,000 definitions of terms you would come across almost every day in Psychology. Put together by Psychologists Arthur S. Reber and Emily S. Reber, this is every Psychology students dream.
The definitions are effective and easy to understand and there are even some definitions that seem utterly pointless. It covers all relevant fields within Psychology and also discusses how some definitions are incorporated into every day Psychological research and treatment. It also goes into detail on other more important concepts such as addiction.
Although detailed and concise, the authors from the start make you aware that it's not a biography and does not hold definitions about important people in Psychology. It does, however, include the definitions that hold the name of the Psychologist that adds to certain important theories such as "Freudian Slip." Along with the Psychologist definition, it also directs you to the exact psychological medical definition.
Here are some examples of the definitions contained within to give you some idea of what to expect.
Insomnia
A general term for chronic inability to sleep normally, as evidenced by difficulty in falling asleep, frequent waking during the night, and/or early morning waking with attendant difficulty in falling back to sleep. In the vast majority of cases insomnia is caused by either anxiety or pain. Over the years a large number of synonyms have been used, including agrypnia, ahypnia, ahyposia, anhypnia, anhypnosis and other variations. The current view is that insomnia is not a single disorder but a complex group of related disorders, which has led to the suggestion that the term disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep be used in place of insomnia.
Agraphia
Partial or complete loss of writing ability due to cerebral pathology, an analogue of motor aphasia. Several special forms are often noted.
As you can see the definitions vary widely in size and detail, but there are also massive definitions that take up almost an entire page. As also indicated with the definition of Agraphia, there are many different variations of the same condition, but the dictionary is arranged which allows those variations of Agraphia to stay in linear fashion with the base definition so you don't have to be flicking through a number of pages to see the alternative types and what they do.
It's a highly useful tool and is something worthwhile for all those embarking on a Psychology course in the future as I promise you'll be picking it up every 5 minutes.
The definitions are effective and easy to understand and there are even some definitions that seem utterly pointless. It covers all relevant fields within Psychology and also discusses how some definitions are incorporated into every day Psychological research and treatment. It also goes into detail on other more important concepts such as addiction.
Although detailed and concise, the authors from the start make you aware that it's not a biography and does not hold definitions about important people in Psychology. It does, however, include the definitions that hold the name of the Psychologist that adds to certain important theories such as "Freudian Slip." Along with the Psychologist definition, it also directs you to the exact psychological medical definition.
Here are some examples of the definitions contained within to give you some idea of what to expect.
Insomnia
A general term for chronic inability to sleep normally, as evidenced by difficulty in falling asleep, frequent waking during the night, and/or early morning waking with attendant difficulty in falling back to sleep. In the vast majority of cases insomnia is caused by either anxiety or pain. Over the years a large number of synonyms have been used, including agrypnia, ahypnia, ahyposia, anhypnia, anhypnosis and other variations. The current view is that insomnia is not a single disorder but a complex group of related disorders, which has led to the suggestion that the term disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep be used in place of insomnia.
Agraphia
Partial or complete loss of writing ability due to cerebral pathology, an analogue of motor aphasia. Several special forms are often noted.
As you can see the definitions vary widely in size and detail, but there are also massive definitions that take up almost an entire page. As also indicated with the definition of Agraphia, there are many different variations of the same condition, but the dictionary is arranged which allows those variations of Agraphia to stay in linear fashion with the base definition so you don't have to be flicking through a number of pages to see the alternative types and what they do.
It's a highly useful tool and is something worthwhile for all those embarking on a Psychology course in the future as I promise you'll be picking it up every 5 minutes.
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Not for the beginner
Nice dictionary for the price but many words I have looked up are just not there.
If you are new to the subject perhaps give this one a miss, but if you have been studying the... Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2004 by "tristenb"
Good general dicitionary but don't rely totally on it
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Great book for those new to psychology!
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