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PSY 380:
Experimental Psychology Resources
Mortola Library

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias    Assessment & Testing   
Indexes & Databases
    Web Resources


Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

The Dictionary of Psychology
Mortola Ref BF31.C72 1999
Encyclopedia of Psychology     
Mortola Ref BF31.E52 2000 (vols. 1-8)

MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Mortola Ref BF311 M556 1999

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
Mortola Ref BF76.7 .P83 2001

Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms
Mortola Ref Z695.1.P7 T48 2005

To find other Psychology Reference books, search the Pace Library Catalog. Try a Subject search using the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:

  • Psychology -- Dictionaries
  • Psychology -- Encyclopedias

Assessment & Testing

Clinical Personality Assessment: Practical Approaches
Mortola Ref BF698.4 F68 1995
Articles covering special populations, interpretations of test results, sources of personality information, and problems in personality assessment.

Encyclopedia of Clinical Assessment    
Mortola Ref  BF698.4 .E5
Essays on different topics related to clinical assessment.

Handbook of Psychological Assessment    
Mortola Ref  BF176 .G76 2003
Contains articles on a variety of related topics. Samples of tests are included.

Handbook of Psychological and Educational Assessment of Children: Intelligence and Acheivement    
Mortola Ref  BF722.H33 1990 (vol. 1)
 
Handbook of Psychological and Educational Assessment of Children: Personality, Behavior, and Context
Mortola Ref  BF722.H33 2003b (vol. 2)
Provides chapters on various topics related to assessment in children.

Measures of Personality and Social Psychology Attitudes
Mortola Ref BF698.4 M38 1990
Chapters on specific types of scales including subjective well-being, self-esteem, social anxiety, depression, and alienation.

Questionnaires: Design and Use    
Mortola Ref  BF39. B445 1986
Contains essays describing the design and implementation of a questionnaire. Sample questionnaires, sample follow up letters, a case history of a study using questionnaires and a sample check-off list are included in the appendix.
To find other books on Assessment, search the Pace Library Catalog. Try a Subject search using the following Library of Congress Subject Headings:
  • Educational Tests and Testing
  • Psychological Tests
  • Psychometrics
  • Questionnaires

Information on Specific Tests

Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques    
Mortola Ref  HQ728.T68 1990
Provides abstracts of nearly 1000 instruments and includes: dimensions of interaction, intimacy and family values, parenthood, roles and power, and adjustment. Each abstract provides a brief description, references and comments.

Mental Measurements Yearbook    Database is also available, see below.
Mortola Ref  Z5814.P8 B932 2001
Entries include a test description, purpose, population, publication dates, administration, publisher and a review of the test. Indexes: classified subject, names, score, and acronyms. The volumes do not cumulate, so check the earlier volumes if the test you need is not in the latest edition.

Test Critiques    
Mortola Ref  BF176.T419 1984(vols. 1-4)
       
Provides several pages of description and critique on tests.

Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessment in Psychology, Education, and Business
Mortola Ref  BF176.T43 1986
Very briefly provides title, author, subject population, purpose, description, cost and publisher information for thousands of tests. No evaluations or reviews.
 

Indexes & Databases

Psychological Abstracts 1927-1995 Birnbaum Library(Pace NY)
      1927 - 1968 (microfilm) Mortola Library (Pace PLV)
Primary abstracting source for the discipline of psychology. Abstracts for journal articles and technical reports. ** This is a print resource. You need to look year by year and then find the article in the original source.**

PsycARTICLES     1998-present 
The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 25,000 searchable full text articles from 38 journals published by the APA and 4 from allied organizations

PsycINFO    1887-present
The PsycINFO database includes references and summaries for journal articles, books, book chapters, and technical reports published worldwide, and references to dissertations. Some fulltext is available in this database.

Education Abstracts 1983-present
Abstracts only, selected full text available in Omnifile (another database).

ERIC      1966-present      
       Abstracts only. We have access to this database through September 30, 2004. ERIC journals may be found full text in other databases. As of October 1, 2004, ERIC Documents will be available for free through the new ERIC system website at http://www.eric.ed.gov

Mental Measurements Yearbook DATABASE   .
From the Buros Institute. Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially available tests. 
Buros Institute Test Locator    http://www.unl.edu/buros

 

Web Resources

Prof. Ward's Professional Links Page http://webpage.pace.edu/award/proflink.htm
This site will be familiar to those of you in Professor Ward's PSY 380 class.

Behavior Online    http://www.behavior.net
Provides links to Internet sources in many disciplines of psychology. Annotations and evaluations of the resources.

INFOMINE    http://infomine.ucr.edu
Scholarly Internet Resource Collection from the University of California.

InternetSCOUT Project    http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
Searchable database of Scout Report Weekly emails of new Internet resources.

Psychology WWW Virtual Library http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi
Keeps track of online information sites.

PsychWeb    http://www.psychwww.com
Offers links to books, articles, resource gateways and career information.


Other Pace Library Websites

Clinical Psychology Resources at the Mortola Library.

General Psychology Resources at the Mortola Library or Birnbaum Library.

Psychology Internet Resources that have been evaluated by Pace librarians or suggested by your Professors.

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Created by Pace University Library
Last Revised 9/05

Karen DeSantis
kdesantis@pace.edu