PsycINFO Assignment
(Due by Wednesday, September 21st, 2016)
The goal of this assignment is to walk you through finding appropriate
empirical articles using PsycINFO database. Specifically, the
objectives of this assignment are for you to: (1) start early a research
idea that of interest you, (2) examine current literature relevant to
your research project, (3) practice writing a cover page and reference
page using APA format.
The assignment includes four parts:
1. Complete the Report of Literature Search Form (see attachment)
2. A Cover page (double space – always double space).
(see example below)
3. Reference page (choose seven references; at least one is from
peer reviewed journal and one from book or book chapter.
Remember: double space) (see example on next page)
Alland, A. Jr. (1977). The artistic animal: An inquiry into the biological roots of art. Garden
City, NY: Anchor Press.
Gakhar, S., & Luthra, S. (1973). The test-retest reliability of Torrance Tests of Verbal Creative
Thinking in a sample of ninth and tenth grade Indian children. Journal of the Indian
Academy of Applied Psychology, 10 (2-3), 48-52.
Lubart, T. I. (1999). Creativity across cultures. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Handbook of creativity
(pp. 339-350). New York: Cambridge University Press.
4. Print of your list of selected references (5 of them) including title,
author, source, and abstract
Report of Literature Search
Your name____________________ Date________________
With this exercise, you will identify a research topic of interest you
and conduct a brief literature search on the topic using PsycINFO.
Please follow the steps below:
1. Describe an area in psychology that interests you (“school
achievement”; “interpersonal relationship”; “ academic
procrastination”). Try to be as specific as possible.
2. Write as many terms/constructs as you can think of that describe
this topic. These are terms you will use in your literature search
3. Using the several possible terms listed above. Conduct your
search to find out your seven abstracts. Do not use articles
written in a foreign language.
