Psychology 120 (Tiemensma): Welcome!

By the end of this class you will be able to:

• Manage your research topic
• Discover and develop good search terms
• Find and use relevant databases

Find scientific literature (at least three sources) that show the significance of a health problem.

Why not just use Google for your research projects?

• Often more time consuming than using library databases
• First few results are from commercial sites or Wikipedia
• Sometimes hard to establish the authority of the site
• You will miss out on the 'good' stuff