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PSYC 004 Psychology in Schools (SC)

Psychology 004: Psychology in Schools (Thelamour) Fall 2022 Educational psychology, or the study of human teaching and learning, provides a great applied introduction to psychological concepts.

Research Best Bets

The main sources for identifying articles and books in Education and related fields.

Brainstorm Search Words

Example

How is sleep affected in people with brain injuries?

Step 1: Break up this research question into two or three main concepts. Ignore extraneous words.

  • Concept #1: sleep
  • Concept #2: brain injury

Step 2: Conduct an initial search with these words, and quickly scan the results. 

Step 3: Using information from your initial search, add synonyms, acronyms, and variant spellings.

  • Concept #1: sleep, insomnia, hypersomnolence
  • Concept #2: brain injury, tbi, concussion

Understand Boolean Operators

  • Know the logic behind search engines
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  • AND gives you results that include ALL of your concepts.
     
  • OR gives you results that include ANY of your concepts.
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  • Essentially in the above example you are searching:​

(sleep OR insomnia OR hypersomnolence) AND (brain injury OR tbi OR concussion)