Background Information
Books & Videos Available at the Landmark College Library
Articles Database
Websites

Psychology Course Guides

 

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Find Background Information

Use these books for an overview of your topic, for definitions and explanations and for lists of further readings.  This list is selective!

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Reference Area

• Encyclopedia of Psychology — 150.3 GAL

• Dictionary of Psychology — 150.3 C692d

• Learning & Memory —150.103 L438

• Encyclopedia of Mental Health -- 616.89 G151

• Mental Disorders Sourcebook -- 616.89 M549

• DSM IV-TR: Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- 616.89 DIA

 

Find Books & Videos in the Landmark College Library

Use WebCat to search for books, ebooks, and films at the Landmark College Library.

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Browse the Psychology collection in the 150's on the second floor.

 

Find Articles

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Academic OneFile
Multi-disciplinary database, includes scholarly journals, millions of articles in full text in pdf and html format.

• Hint: Make sure you click on the Academic Journals tab!!
• Try a Subject Guide Search and use the Subdivisions to narrow your topic.

Hint: use only one very broad term Example: Bipolar Disorder

• Try an Advanced Search and search for keywords in the Abstract.
• Hint: search for more than one term at a time. Put each term on a different line

Academic Search Premier

Scholarly articles from journals and magazines. 

• Use "quoation marks" to search for phrases.
• Once you have a results list, Narrow By Subject. 
• Try an Advanced Search and search for key words in the Abstract. 

Today's Science

Articles on the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.

• Psychology Topics
• Biographies of Psychologists

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Provides basic information on thousands of psychological disorders and medications used to treat them. 

 

Websites

American Psychological Association

http://www.apa.org/

• Browse the list of Psychology Topics for topics on disorders.

AmoebaWeb

http://vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/

• 2000 links to psychology content (including full-text articles) freely available on the Web.

MedLine Plus

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

• Provides information on disorders and prescription drug treatments and links to other sites.

National Institute of Mental Health

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

• Scan the Topic Finder which lists many of the disorders covered. 

Whole Brain Atlas

http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html

 

Psychology Course Guides

Abnormal Psychology (SS2051)

Introduction to Psychology (SS1011)

Fundamentals of Psychology (SS0951)

 

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