PSY 302 – Child Development

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To identify databases relevant to Psychology, look at the recommendations on the research guide for the program

Use the Advanced Search options to create more detailed searches and expand relevant results

Play with synonyms (like terms) to expand your results, using Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) in databases

Use truncation, *, to search for root variant of words where applicable, e.g. child* will retrieve child, children, childhood

Separate your concepts into individual rows to include synonymous terms, e.g. stress OR anxiety 

Modify your search where necessary, making use of field-specific searching, e.g. searching for your terms more narrowly in specific parts of the article, e.g. abstract

Take advantage of additional features in databases, which can help identify highly-cited research, specific types of research design, and other subsets of the literature

If the full-text of the article is not in the database, use the Check TMU Library links to find full-text, where available

Example of an advanced search in PsycInfo - video embedded below: