# APA dictionary of psychology #### (2007) - **Link**:: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2006-11044-000.pdf **DOI**:: **Links**:: **Tags**:: #paper **Cite Key**:: [@VandenBos2007-as] ### Abstract ``` The largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and the largest association of psychologists in the world–the American Psychological Association–is proud to present a landmark reference work, the definitive information on the language of the field, including: 25,000 entries offering clear and authoritative definitions; Balanced coverage of over 90 subareas across the field of psychology–including clinical, experimental, neuropsychology, cognitive, personality and social, developmental, health, psychopharmacology, methodology and statistics, and many others; Thousands of incisive cross-references that deepen the user's understanding of related topics; Close to 200 concise entries on major figures in the history of psychology and central organizations, institutions, and associations; A Guide to the Dictionary and Quick Guide to Format that explain stylistic and format features; 4 appendixes on entries from these categories: biographies; institutions, organizations, and associations; psychological tests and assessment instruments; and psychotherapies and psychotherapeutic approaches In the making for 10 years, the selection of headwords has been vetted against the APA PsycINFO® database, with its more than 2 million records from the psychological literature, and developed and edited by a distinguished editorial board of almost 100 psychological scholars, researchers, and clinicians. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) ``` ### Notes