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Psychology Databases

PsycINFO
The American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 5 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
PsycARTICLES
From the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 178,000 articles from 103 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), and from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
ScienceDirect
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 2,500 scientific, technical and medical journals as well as access to 503 full-text Elsevier journals, and titles subscribed to by Pepperdine University Libraries, through the SCELC consortium, plus 45 titles in the Psychology backfile.
Sage Journals Online
Provides access to the full text of individual SAGE journals, including issues dating back to 1999. SAGE publishes journals in Business, Communication, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine and includes leading international peer-reviewed titles, including high-impact research journals published on behalf of over 245 scholarly and professional societies.
Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Library
Access to over 900 online journals from Routledge, Taylor & Francis, and Psychology Press. Featured disciplines include Behavioral Science; Education; Business, Management & Economics; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Politics, International Relations & Area Studies; Sociology & Related Disciplines; and Sport, Leisure & Tourism.

Multidisciplinary Databases

These comprehensive databases contain articles on psychology topics.

Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.
JSTOR
Access the journal archives Arts & Sciences I, II, & III, IV, and over 40,000 ebooks on the JSTOR platform; book chapters and journal articles are cross-searchable. JSTOR is an extensive archive of interdisciplinary journals and books, covering subject disciplines in Arts, Business & Economics, History, Humanities, Law, Science & Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Religion.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

Empirical Studies

Finding empirical studies in PsycINFO

To find articles that report on empirical research, some keywords you might want to use could be:

population, study, results, discussion, data, variables, limitations, implications, survey, respondents, or conclusion.

Such terms should be searched as keywords rather than subject terms because they reflect the kind of language used in an article describing empirical research, but they are not the topic or subject of the study.

Journals

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition.
Publishes original experimental and theoretical research on human cognition, with a special emphasis on learning, memory, language, and higher cognition.
Cognition
An international journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind. It covers a wide variety of subjects concerning all the different aspects of cognition, ranging from biological and experimental studies to formal analysis.
Developmental cognitive neuroscience.
Publishes theoretical and research papers on cognitive brain development, from infancy through childhood and adolescence and into adulthood. It covers neurocognitive development and neurocognitive processing in both typical and atypical development
Journal of cognitive psychology
Publishes contributions from all areas of cognitive psychology, focusing on sound and theory-driven studies that advance our understanding of cognitive mechanisms and processes.

Useful Books

Handbook of Applied Cognition (2d ed) by Francis T. Durso (Editor); Raymond S. Nickerson (Associate Editor); Susan T. Dumais (Associate Editor); Stephan Lewandowsky (Associate Editor); Timothy J. Perfect (Associate Editor)
ISBN: 9780470015346
Publication Date: 2007-03-19
Brings together the latest research into this important field, and is fully updated with eleven new chapters covering materials that focus on the topics critical to understanding human mental functions in complex environments.
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning by Robin A. Murphy (Editor); Robert C. Honey (Editor)
ISBN: 9781118650943
Publication Date: 2016-08-01
Charts the evolution of associative analysis and the neuroscientific study of behavior as parallel approaches to understanding how the brain learns that both challenge and inform each other.
The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory by Audrey Duarte; Donna Rose Addis; Morgan Barense
ISBN: 9781118332597
Publication Date: 2015-06-02
Presents a comprehensive overview of the latest,cutting-edge neuroscience research being done relating to the study of human memory and cognition.
Oxford dictionary of psychology by Andrew M. Colman
ISBN: 0192806327
Publication Date: 2012
E-Book
The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) by Robert A. Wilson; Frank C. Keil
Call Number: Oversize BF311 .M556 1999
ISBN: 9780262731249
Publication Date: 1999-08-02
A landmark, comprehensive reference work that represents the methodological and theoretical diversity of this changing field.
Handbook of Cognition by Koen Lamberts (Editor); Rob Goldstone (Editor)
Call Number: BF201 .H37 2005
ISBN: 9780761972778
Publication Date: 2004-11-18
Provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and 'hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline.
Categorizing Cognition by Graeme S. Halford; William H. Wilson; Glenda Andrews; Steven Phillips
Call Number: BF311 .H288 2014
ISBN: 9780262028073
Publication Date: 2014-12-19
A proposal for a categorization of cognition based on core properties of the constituent processes that integrates theory and empirical findings across domains.

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An analysis of thinking, conceptualization, attention, memory, problem solving, language and symbolic activity, and related mediational processes in the individual.