PSYC 205 (Barnett) FA25

Keywords are the main ideas in your topic.

• "Quotation marks" keep words together "stress reduction"
• AND searches all terms "stress reduction" AND mindfulness AND adults
• Truncation (shift 8 to get the asterisk) searches multiple variations of a word. mindful* - mindful, mindfulness, and mindfully at once
• Grow Your Keyword List with words you read in abstracts, article titles, and subject headings

Empirical Articles

Based on original research conducted by the authors.

• Often include tables, charts, and graphs.
• Includes sections like Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.
• Details how the study was conducted, including data collection and analysis.
• Provides specific information about participants, experiments, and data.

Literature Reviews

Summarizes and synthesizes existing research on a specific topic.

• Keywords like critical, systematic, scoping, or meta-analysis in the title or abstract, along with the term review.
• Mentions combining data from several studies in the abstract.
• Discusses various studies broadly without specific data or experiments.
• Focuses on combining data from existing studies.
• Lacks sections like Methods or Results.