Intro Psych

Extra Credit: Journal Article

 

You can earn 5 extra credit points for this assignment. You may do this twice (to earn a total of 10 points) if you did not attend the Psych Club extra credit session. This is due on TUESDAY, November 25th.

 

Use the PsycArticles database to locate a recent (2003 or newer) research article related to a topic assigned by me. If you would like to do this assignment see me for your topic(s). Once you locate an article, you must do the following:

  1. Print the entire article (or download and save the file) and attach to your assignment.

  2. Read the article and in 200 words or less, summarize the article IN YOUR OWN WORDS!

  3. Conclude by stating in 50 words of less what you think is the importance of this research either for the field of psychology or for the general population.

 

Directions for using the database:

The Coon Rapids Library now has available a 30-day free trial to APA's "PsycArticles" database. "PsycArticles is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Vol. 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms."

Searching the Coon Rapids Library's PsycArticles (trial) database:

1) Go to http://www.anokaramsey.edu/library/coonrapids.cfm

2) In the "Library Catalogs and Databases" section, click "EBSCO."

3) From off campus, you will need to login with the 14-digit barcode from your ARCC I.D. card, and your password, which is your last name. Otherwise, proceed to 4).

4) Click EBSCOhost Web

5) Click PsycArticles

6) Type your search term(s) in the Search box. Start off with a broad search, then you may narrow if you retrieve too many irrelevant results.

7) On the same screen, you may also, if you choose, limit your search by published date, for example, Jan. 2004-Dec. 2008, or by a particular journal name, such as Behavioral Neuroscience.

8) Click the "Search" box.

9) From your results list, click the title of the article to view the abstract, which is a summary of the article. Doing this step enables you to quickly see whether the article is relevant for your topic or not.

10) If you want a copy of article, click the "PDF full text" or "HTML full text" link. Then, print the article.

11) After trying the database, if you are having problems coming up with appropriate search terms, or not locating articles you can use, or have other research questions, please feel free to contact one of the librarians at 763-433-1150.

12) Please note the trial to PsycArticles ends November 19, which means it will no longer be available this semester.