For this assignment, you must investigate your "Lot in Life." To do so, you are required find and assess information on your Lot in Life. This guide will assist your search for quality information.

Review the assignment instructions and note that you need a general article and three empirical articles.

General articles can be book chapters OR review articles. Review articles are also known as "literature reviews" or "reviews of the literature."

 

	Finding a book chapter (general article) book chapters can be used for general articles
	Finding journal articles (general or empirical articles) review articles can be used for general articles empirical articles are also required
	Citing sources APA style is required for this assignment

Finding a book chapter
This assignment requires you to find a 'general article' on your Lot in Life. This can easily be done by finding a book about the general issue in your 'Lot' and selecting a chapter that provides further details on the particular issues. You can find a review article. See: Finding empirical empirical articles for more instructions.

Step 1:
Brainstorm key vocabulary terms to describe your Lot in Life.

• What are all the ways you can describe your Lot?

• What aspect of your Lot are you most interested in? Diagnosis? Treatment?

Step 2:
Use the vocabulary terms to search for books that discuss your Lot broadly. Select a chapter from that book.

• Search the Library Catalog for a book on the general topic.

• If we don't have many items on your topic, search .

• A book chapter will provide an overview of the issue/topic.

• Look at a chapter's reference list for empirical articles; find them and use them!
   

Finding journal articles (general or empirical)
Students will be using PsycINFO, the primary database of psychology research literature to find their journal articles.

Every Lot in Life is different, so each person will have to approach their searches differently.

Research tip	How to
Identify more search terms	Click on Thesaurus
Search by a particular age group	In Advanced Search click on: Refine Search>Age Groups
Search for empirical studies	In Advanced Search click on: Refine Search>Methodology>Empirical Studies
Search for literature reviews (general articles)	In Advanced Search click on: Refine Search>Methodology>Literature review
Search for word variants e.g. sex*=sexes, sexual, sexism	Use the truncation symbol: *