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APA STYLE AND WRITING FOR PSYCHOLOGY
The American Psychological Association has established an editorial style that consists of guidelines concerning the presentation of written material, including such elements as references, citations, and the presentation of statistics. For information on how to write essays or research reports in APA style, please view the following guides and links.
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JOVE SCIENCE EDUCATION (JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS)
This collection provides a framework for observing how psychological experiments are embedded in the actual research process—from initial design to formulating conclusions. Understanding the methodology—how experimental psychologists arrive at conclusions—is as important as the facts and conclusions themselves. This video series supports such learning, as a number of topics are creatively explained, ranging from the use of confederates to placebo effects and ethical considerations.
Describes a number of influential paradigms used to study complex mental processes underlying attention, perception, and learning and memory. The videos clearly illustrate the chronology of experiments—how to design stimuli and obtain data for both simple, pen-and-paper approaches to more involved computer-based executions.
Explores the experimental domains of attention and perception, reasoning, social learning, and memory processes-highlighting the dynamic changes that emerge throughout infancy and childhood. Based upon many classic studies in the field, this series creatively illuminates the unique challenges in devising tasks targeted towards normative developmental processes, including how to study infants before they can talk, and how repeated questioning can lead children to form false memories.
Behavior is a complex phenomenon and scientists are trying to decode the neural mechanisms by which our systems produce and are affected by behavior. Essentials of Behavioral Science presents the fundamentals of behavior neuroscience. This collection is sub-divided on the basis of different aspects of human behavior such as learning, memory, cognition, movement, addiction and behavioral disorders.
Provides an introduction to the field of neuroscience. These videos offer a glimpse of neuroscience at the professional level, through an exploration of five major branches of study: neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, cell and molecular neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, and developmental neuroscience.
This collection delves into a variety of procedures to study how the brain processes our complex sensory world and solves problems confronting conscious awareness and visual, tactile, and auditory perception.
This collection presents multidisciplinary techniques in behavior, neurophysiology, anatomy, and functional imaging to help diagnose brain damage and mental disorders.
This collection features classical methods used to investigate how social contexts influence people’s actions, thoughts, and attitudes and provides a transparent look into social experiments.
JOURNAL DATABASES
Comprehensive index to journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations in the field of psychology. PsycINFO is a database produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), containing more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, dating as far back as the 1800’s. Abstracts are provided in most records and some provide links to the full text article. Other records provide information about where you can find the book or journal article and will allow you to place an interlibrary loan request.
If you need articles for your assignments, PsycINFO has some unique features. Have a look at this guide, which provides some detail about searching, limiting, using the thesaurus, storing records, and citing articles. Guide to using PsycINFO: Info Guide
- To look for studies that have utilized a particular test, simply enter the test name (e.g., “Beck Depression Inventory”) and select “TM Tests & Measures” from the drop-down list.
- If you are looking for the actual test questions, follow these steps:
- Enter the construct (e.g., “depression”) into the first search bar
- Type “appended” into the second search bar and select “TM Tests & Measures” from the drop-down list. All of the search results will include the full text of a test or measurement for that particular construct.
Contains more than 169,000 searchable full-text articles from over 90 peer reviewed journals published by the APA and allied organizations. Every article found in PsycARTICLES is also indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage: Full text articles, 1988 to present
Covers 5,400 journals in medicine, life sciences, and other health areas. Includes full articles from over 1,400 journals. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, which also produces a free version called PubMed. Coverage: 1966 to present; Citation, abstract, and some full text
Wiley Online Library hosts the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals.
Taylor and Francis Social Sciences and Humanities Collection includes access to 1,250 journals.
Indexes more than 2,000 journals published by Elsevier, with the full text for over 1,000 journals in these two collections: Social and Behavioural Sciences Journals and Health and Life Sciences Journals. Coverage: 1995-present, some full text; 1800s-present, citations
PSYCHIATRYONLINE (DSM)
A collection of online references including the current DSM, The American Journal of Psychiatry, books, journal subscriptions, and self-assessment tools. For more information, please refer to the Psychiatry Online User Guide.
APA HANDBOOKS, ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND E-BOOKS
Series includes: APA Addiction Syndrome Handbook, APA Educational Psychology Handbook, APA Handbook of Counseling Psychology, APA Handbook of Ethics in Psychology, APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology, APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology, APA Handbook of Sexuality and Psychology, APA Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology, APA Handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality, APA Handbook of Behavior Analysis, and the APA Handbook of Testing and Assessment in Psychology.
Click here for separate links to individual titles of the APA Handbooks in Psychology Collection.
The two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment contain a series of 235 entries, organized alphabetically, and covering a variety of fields. Each entry includes a general conceptual and methodological overview, a section on relevant assessment devices, followed by links to related concepts in the Encyclopedia and a list of references and authoritative coverage of every major area of psychology.
Up-to-date and authoritative coverage of every major area of psychology.
A large collection of online reference books and encyclopedias including these titles:
Trusted eBooks from scholarly sources.