Psychology 300: Psychological Methods and Analysis II

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The Thesaurus in PsycInfo provides you with a list of the "official" search terms used in the database. It can help you to:

• Identify the best terms to use in your searching
• Find other terms that you might not have thought of

It's a great way to link your research idea to the actually terminology used by researchers to describe constructs.

Try entering words that describe your variables and see what you find

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