Psychology

PSY 111 Library Instruction

The following slides cover techniques for evaluating the quality of sources, finding sources at the library website, avoiding plagiarism, and addressing seven top risks related to using AI tools.

Search Phrase Tips

Try using multiple keywords, quotation marks around multiword phrases, and the capitalized Boolean operators AND and OR to get better search results. Here are some example search phrases:

development AND Vygotsky
psychology AND adolescence AND disorder
"Ethical Principles of Psychologists" OR "APA Ethics Code"
psychology AND (self OR identity)

For more details about how Boolean searches work, check out our page on generating search terms.

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