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Psychology

Here are the best library resources for Psychology

How To Use This Guide

Welcome to the Psychology Library Resources Page! 

Click the tabs to the left to find help locating relevant books, articles, and websites, as well as help formatting your papers in APA Style.  For assistance with this guide or any of the content herein, please contact the library by phone, email, or chat.

Off Campus Access

When prompted to log in to access the library's resources, enter your CougarNet username and password. If it does not work, you can access and search the Psychology database at https://tntel.info/resource-search This is the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), a state wide online collection of articles and eBooks.

Type "psychology" in the TEL search box and click find a database. Your first and only result should be Psychology (Gale OneFile).

Topics and Search Terms

Psychology:

  • Structuralism
  • Functionalism
  • Behaviorism

Perspective:

  • Psychological
  • Sociocultural
  • Experimental Method
  • Psychoanalytic Psychology
  • Psychology Experiment
  • Case Studies
  • Mental Health Professionals
  • Psychologists
  • Researcher Bias
  • Variables and Groups
  • Cause and Effect
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
  • Research Participant Bias

Research Methods:

  • Naturalistic Observation
  • Correlational Method
  • Case Studies
  • Survey Method

Brain and Behavior:

  • Nervous System
  • Neurons
  • Neuroplasticity and Neurogenesis
  • Brain Research
  • Hemispheres and Lobes

Human Development:

  • Nature and Nurture
  • Heredity and Maturation
  • Environment and Maturation
  • Emotional and Social Development in Childhood
  • Parenting Styles
  • Ethnic Differencies
  • Piaget's Theory
  • Adolescence and Adulthood
  • Ethical Behavior

Sensation and Perception:

  • Vision
  • Hearing
  • Smell and Taste
  • Emotions and Perception
  • Perception and Objectivity
  • Motives, Emotions, and Perception
  • Communication
  • Reading and Listening
  • Writing and Speaking

Consciousness:

  • States of Consciousness
  • Sleep and Dreams
  • Psychoactive Drugs
  • Metacognition

Conditioning and Learning: 

  • Associative and Cognitive Learning
  • Classical OR Operant Conditioning
  • Reinforcement and Punishment
  • Behavioral Self-Management

Memory: Memory Systems

  • Stages of Memory
  • Short Term OR Long Term
  • Working Memory
  • False Memories
  • Recalling Information
  • Recognizing Information
  • Forgetting AND/OR Suppression of Memories
  • Exceptional Memory

Cognition and Intelligence:

  • Modes of Thought
  • Mental Imagery
  • Language
  • Problem Solving
  • Creative Thinking and Intuition
  • Intelligence
  • Creativity and Innovation
  • Multiple Intelligence, IQ

Motivation and Emotion:

  • Basic Emotions
  • Intrinsic and Extrinsic 
  • Turning Play into Work
  • Physical Aspects
  • Hunger OR  Thrist
  • Pain OR pleasure
  • Anxiety OR calm
  • Fight OR Flight
  • Lie Detectors
  • Body Language

Human Sexuality:

  • Gender
  • Stereotypes
  • Behavior Factors
  • Diversity 
  • Inclusion

Personality:

  • Personailty Traits
  • Types
  • Trait Theories
  • Psychodynamic AND Humanistic Theories
  • Behavioral AND Social Learning Theories
  • Leadership

Health Psychology:

  • Behaviors AND Illiness
  • Health-Promoting Behaviors
  • Early Prevention
  • Stressors OR Stress AND Coping
  • Stress and Health
  • Stress Managment

Psychological Disorders:

  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Illness
  • Abnormal Behavior
  • Types of Symptoms
  • Mood Disorders
  • Personaility Disorder*

Therapies:

  • Individual OR Group
  • Insight Versus Action Therapy
  • Phychotherapy
  • Psychodynamic
  • Healing by Learning
  • Behavior OR Medical Therapies

Social Psychology:

  • Social Behavior AND Cognition
  • Social Roles
  • Attitudes AND Behavior
  • Social Influence
  • Forming Attitudes
  • Conformity, Compliance, Obedience
  • Prosocial OR Antisocial Behavior

Applied Psychology:

  • Industrial/Organizational Psychology
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Becoming a Team Player
  • Organizational Culture
  • Environmental Influence
  • Problem Solving
  • Social Dilemmas

Behavioral Statistics: 

  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Graphical Statistics
  • Standard Scores
  • Normal Curve
  • Correlation
  • Rating Relationships
  • Samples and Populations
  • Significant Differences

 

Library of Congress Classification Outline: Class BF: https://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/classification/lcco/lcco_b.pdf