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Learning to Research
Welcome to this research guide for Research Methodology. This guide contains library resources to help you be successful in this class.
On this page, see the course information and a quick list of resources to help you get started.
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The following can help you start your research.
See the Library Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.
Databases
- APA PsycArticles
- Why search here? This is our most important database for peer-reviewed literature in psychology.
- What’s included? APA PsycArticles includes almost 120 full-text journals from the American Psychological Association and related organizations. Most journals’ entire runs are included, from their first issues to the present.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
- Why search here? The Mental Measurements Yearbook contains descriptions and reviews of commercially available psychometric tests used in education, business, and psychology. Although potentially useful to all students whose field of research involves mental tests, this database is particularly important for graduate students planning their own research projects.
- What’s included? The Mental Measurements Yearbook annually produces extensive descriptions of new testing instruments with reviews by subject experts. Tests in Print maintains a bibliography of all testing instruments currently available in English.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Why search here? This is one of the most important databases for psychology and is also relevant to nursing, education, the social sciences, and social work.
- What’s included? The database includes over 300 full-text journals with indexing and abstracts for almost 300 more.
- Cognitive Therapy & Research
Research and theory on the role of cognitive processes in human adaptation and adjustment, experimental studies, theoretical and technical articles, review articles and brief reports; experimental studies on all aspects of psychology.
- Counselling & Psychotherapy Research
Links counselling & psychotherapy research with practice. Promotes research that is reflexive—authors are encouraged to write reflexively about their personal engagement with research & the relationship with intellectual & cultural traditions.
Advances in Experimental Psychology Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781633213500Publication Date:This book is a compilation of research conducted in the field of experimental psychology. The book includes chapters on the automatic versus controlled processes dichotomy; beginnings and development of experimental psychology; and environmental context-dependent memory.
Encyclopedia of Psychology Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1621001490Publication Date:Presents important research advances in the study of psychology research. This book discusses such topics as cultural psychology; meta-mood research; child and adolescent psychiatry; psychological influences on child nutrition; psychotherapy of addictive diseases; sexual hormones and aggressive behaviour in schizophrenia; and more.
Psychology at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Education
The School of Education offers a variety of undergraduate majors and a master of counseling psychology (MCP), a master of general psychology, and a master of education (M.Ed.) at the graduate level.
- Department of Psychology
The Psychology Department at NWOSU offers a bachelor’s degree in psychology with minors in sports psychology, grief and bereavement, substance abuse, and general psychology.
- Graduate Studies
If you are interested in furthering your higher education at Northwestern, we offer master’s degree programs in education, counseling psychology, general psychology, and American studies—and one doctorate program in Nursing Practice (BSN to DNP online).
- Master of Counseling Psychology
The master of counseling psychology (MCP) degree is a 48-hour counseling program. Two additional tracks prepare students for careers as licensed professional counselors or as licensed alcohol and drug counselors.
- Master of General Psychology
The goal of the MGP degree is to make a contribution to the supply of academically prepared graduates who will perform necessary duties in the field of behavioral sciences.