Name____________________ Topic_____________________
1.
Find at least 2 articles relevant to your topic through PsycINFO. List
all keywords you used to find the article and the full citation for the articles
you found. (Read the abstracts to make sure the articles really are relevant to
your topic.)
2.
Now for some advanced searching…Find the complete citations for the following
and write them below. The full citation should include all authors’ names, the
title of the article, full name of the journal, year,
issue, and page numbers.
a)
an article by Shalom Schwartz and Tammy Rubel (they
are the ONLY authors) in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
b) a recent article in The
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment describing a qualitative
study about the effects of 9/11 on an immigrant population
3.
Search one of the databases that have popular press articles in them (IAC
Expanded Academic ASAP, LEXIS-NEXIS, Readers’ Guide, Des Moines Register, etc.)
for at least 1 article related to your topic. By popular press, I mean magazine
(not scholarly journal) or newspaper articles.
List the full citation for each article along with the name of the
database you used.
4. If you were looking for
information on key psychological principles involved in presidential leadership
in an Annual Review of Psychology chapter, what would be your best bet? (Give the
title, author, and year/volume of the most recent chapter.)
5. Search the internet for at least 1 website
that is relevant to your topic. List the address of the site, describe its
contents, and give a brief evaluation (is it mostly a “pop” site or is it
scientifically based? do you believe what it says or are you skeptical?)
6. Rubin
et al. published an article in 2006 in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
on the friendships of shy/withdrawn children. What 2007 article in
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly cited this article?