psychology research toolkit

Welcome! This Toolkit is designed to help you develop a questioning approach towards research. Each section links to activities and resources that will help you build your research skills gradually over time.

Click on a section below to get started.

Select a topic. List what you know about your topic -- who, what, when, where, why, and how. What would you like to find out about your topic?

list as many synonyms and related key words as possible. Use the list of words to create multiple combinations with the word AND

use your search strategy to locate more in-depth information in books, find information on specific aspects of your topic in periodical articles

scholarly v. popular articles

annotated bibliography, APA citations, and evaluation of the process