PSYC 201W Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Confounding, Content Analysis, Internal Validity
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Includes all journals published by the apa and the canadian psychological. Psycarticles: database of abstracts rather than online articles. Databases in related disciplines: depending on your topic, consider supplementing your psychological database search with an online search of research in another field. If a search engine or database doesn"t link you to an online copy of the article, check your campus library"s electronic and print journal holdings. If you search online using the title of the journal, you"ll probably obtain a link to the journal"s publisher, who may provide an electronic copy of the article for a fee. Reading research articles: when you locate a research article, you will notice the, title, author names. Structure of a research article: abstract, abstract brief, one-paragraph summary of the report, mentions some key details about the study"s general, purpose, hypotheses, methodology, findings, conclusions.