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PSYC 101 (Olson Bermudez) SP25

This video provides an overview of library resources available for PSYC 101 students.

Welcome PSYC 101 Students!

I'm here to support you with your research.

Questions? Email Stacey at svonwinckelmann@miracosta.edu

Psychology Guide APA Citations
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Keyword Tips

Keywords are the main ideas in your topic.

Advanced Search Strategies

  • "Quotation marks" keep words together "stress psychology"
  • AND searches all terms "stress psychology" AND workplace
  • Truncation (shift 8 to get the asterisk) searches multiple word variations. stress* - stressful, stressed, and stressors at once

Grow Your Keyword List With

  • Words you read in abstracts, article titles, and subject headings

This video demonstrates effective keyword searching techniques for psychology research.

Empirical Articles vs Literature Reviews

Comparison between empirical articles and literature reviews
Empirical Articles Literature Reviews

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.

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.

EBSCOhost

JSTOR

OneSearch

Databases

Psychology Databases