L SC-311-02: Information Literacy
Extra Credit Assignment: Searching PsycLit on CD-ROM
Assigned: Wednesday, September 23
Due: Wednesday, September 30
Points: 20

Extra Credit: Searching PsycLIT on CD-ROM

Instructions: For each question give

• The answer and
• The search statement you used to find the answer.

See the handout, PsycLit on CD-ROM: The Details, for examples of search statements. For general help in searching, see the class notes from September 14, Electronic Searching Basics. Point your browser to http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/lsc311/beck/07notes.html to get the class notes.

Don't worry about putting the correct search line number down. Just write out your search statement.
EX: ATTRIBUTIONS IN TI AND ROMANIC IN TI AND PY=1995. It is important that you search and find the answer, however.

I am certain all of you can do this assignment on your own without asking for assistance.
Here's a couple of rules of thumb to guide you:

• RTS! Read the screen
• When in doubt, look for the help screens, then read them
• When your search comes out badly or not what you expected:
  • closely scrutinize your search statement...there could be a typo in there
  • Ask yourself "Am I in the right database? Should I be looking in 1993-1998 or in older databases?"
  • Explain your process to someone else; by describing what you did you may discover what you didn't do or what you should have done.
• Read the instructions CAREFULLY.
• Remember that computers are very picky and finicky. In your searching, you must be just as exacting and specific as the computer.

Turn in the assignment at the beginning of class on Wednesday, September 30th.

Please read each question carefully and thoroughly

1. Walsh and Kurdek published an article in 1984 on gender differences in friendship. Give the full citation for the article.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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2. List the full citation and the institutional affiliation for an article titled "Suicide in Major Depression" in which E.T. Isometsa was one of the authors.
   
   
   
   
   
   Search Statement:

   

3. What is the institutional affiliation and who are the authors of a journal article on the use of heuristic modeling as a problem solving method for the game of chess?
   
   
   
   
   
   Search Statement:

   

4. You need the title and author of one study on the topic of the effects of caffeine on memory conducted on mice but not rats.
   
   
   
   
   
   Search Statement:

   

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by Susan E. Beck
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM

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