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PSYC 025: Research Design and Analysis (SC)

Psychology 025: Research Design and Analysis (Benton, Blanchar, Zinszer) Fall 2020 This guide supports the study of the fundamental questions about the forulation and evaluation of theories in psychology.

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Keyword Searching in PsycINFO

Construct your search using the keywords and/or phrases relevant to your topic.

  • Use OR to search both keywords/phrases
  • Quotation marks can be used to search for phrases (e.g. "interspecies interaction")
  • Truncation searches for variants of a word. Use an asterisk (*) at the root (e.g. emotion* searches for emotions, emotional, etc.)
  • AND combines the search components to find results with both components in the record

Keyword searching is useful when you are new to a topic or when there is a new area of research that has not been assigned an APA subject heading yet. For example, "microaggressions" is a fairly new area of research and was just added in 2015 as a formal subject heading.

 

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