PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gordon Allport, Psycinfo, Impact Factor

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: Ronald Sheese

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Propose research: funding in a research proposal. Full research project with a plan (steps involved in the research project) the ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologist"s fra(cid:373)e of refere(cid:374)(cid:272)e; gordo(cid:374) allport 1940: psychology has focused on one kind of methodology. Qualitative methods => we need more from it. Evaluate science by predicting, understanding, controlling psychological research methods are controversial phenomena. Psychological research; planning psychological research: the research process begins with development of a research questions inspiration may come from many sources, experiences. Psycinfo (online database); looking for something specific. Records of material that is published in the psychology field. Using databases; most important four databases for psychology articles: psycinfo; abstracts from 2500 journals (mostly psychology articles) Full text from 110 apa journals: pubmed; medical/health issues, google scholar; academic material very broad range of sources. Searching databases: use your research question to generate keywords, combine keywords in your search.