Library instruction
Search exercises for
Psychological Science and Education PhD students
and CIMeC PhD students
Michele Lucianer – University library system
March 2015
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Teether (price > 1,000 $): Google vs Amazon.
2.75 Ct. Diamond Engagement Ring with Round Diamond Solitaire - H, VVS2-VS1: Google vs
Amazon.
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Comedy film for children, produced in German Democratic Republic and released in the
Seventies (DVD format, price < 5 €): Google vs Amazon.
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Google vs catalogues
1. Book about social network analysis, published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press:
Google vs Library of Congress catalogue (new version) or Library of Congress catalogue (old
version).
2. Book about fishes written by Dory Gill, published in 2003: Google vs Library of Congress
catalogue (new version) or Library of Congress catalogue (old version).
3. Book about strikes in United States written by Walt Jackson, published in 2012: Google vs
Library of Congress catalogue (new version) or Library of Congress catalogue (old version).
4. Book about dreams of abuse, published by Gorman in 1992: Google vs Library of Congress
catalogue (new version) or Library of Congress catalogue (old version).
5. Journal whose subject is e-learning from the point of view of the psychology, published in
Pennsylvania since 2011: Google vs Library of Congress catalogue (new version) or Library
of Congress catalogue (old version).
6. Book whose subject deals with restoring functional ability to those with neurological
disorders, published in Vienna in 1996: Google vs Library of Congress catalogue.
7. Book whose subject deals with neurological disorders, one published in London by Springer
in 2011 and one published in California in 2015: Google vs Library of Congress catalogue.
8. Book (not a collection of essays) whose subject deals with pathological cognitive
development, one published by Harper in 2001 and one published in Oxford in 2008:
Google vs Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
9. Book whose subject deals with poverty in USA, published in London in 2010: Google vs
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
10. Book whose subject deals with the socioeconomic situation of Copenhagen, published by
Routledge in 2002: Google vs Catalogo bibliografico trentino
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Subject search exercises
1. Proceedings of a congress held in 2012 whose subject deals with Euclidean geometry,
published by American Mathematical Society in 2015: Library of Congress catalogue.
2. Book whose subject is poor as consumers, published in Rio de Janeiro in 2009: Library of
Congress catalogue.
3. Book whose subject is consumers with low income, published in Rio de Janeiro in 2009:
Library of Congress catalogue.
4. Book whose subject deals with clinical psychopathology, published by Routledge in London
in 2015: Library of Congress catalogue.
5. Book whose subject deals with learning from words (narration, written text…) and pictures
(animation, illustration, video…), published in Boston in 2016: Library of Congress
catalogue
6. Books whose subject deals with a case similar to what occurred to Phineas P. Gage,
published in French in 2011: Library of Congress catalogue.
7. Book whose subject is social anxiety disorder, published by Yale University press in 2007:
Library of Congress catalogue.
8. Book whose subject is eating disorders, published in London in 2004: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino..
9. Book whose subject is eating disorders, published in Spanish in 2004: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
10. Book whose subject is eating disorders in childhood, published in Milano in 2010: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
11. Book whose subject is a psychological research about young persons which don’t attend
schools, don’t work and don’t train, published in French in 2009: Library of Congress
catalogue.
12. Book whose subject is behavioral finance published by Wiley in 2015: Library of Library of
Congress catalogue.
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13. Book about research of social phenomena through statistical data published in Berkeley in
2004: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
14. Book whose subject is categorical data analysis, published in New Jersey in 2015: Library of
Congress catalogue.
15. Book whose subject is motherly bonds in non-human animals, published in Chicago in
2009: Library of Congress catalogue.
16. Book whose subject is knowledge of social world in newborn babies, published (not by
Oxford University Press) in New York in 2013: Library of Congress catalogue.
17. Book whose subject is deontological ethics in the field of clinical treatment of mental
disorders, published by Macmillan in 2015: Library of Congress catalogue.
18. Book whose subject is conditioning mechanisms, published in Connecticut in 2015: Library
of Congress catalogue.
19. Book whose subject is cognitive science, one published in Italian in 2015 and one published
after 2011 by Massachusetts institute of technology: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
20. Book whose subject deals with identification of the nature and cause of psychiatric
disorders, published in New York after 2015: Library of Congress catalogue vs Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
21. Book whose subject deals with pharmacological treatment of mental disorders, published
by Macmillan after 2008: Library of Congress catalogue.
22. Book whose subject deals with ethics of pharmacological treatment of mental disorders,
published in Paris in 1994: Library of Congress catalogue.
23. Book whose subject deals with identification of the nature and cause of mental disorders,
published in California in 2005: Library of Congress catalogue.
24. Book whose subject deals with imidazobenzodiazepine addiction, published in New York in
2016: Library of Congress catalogue.
25. Book whose subject deals with abuse of Prozac, published in California in 1997: Library of
Congress catalogue.
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26. Book whose subject deals with therapy with Prozac, published by Wiley in 1998: Library of
Congress catalogue.
27. Book whose subject is breaking of social norms in adolescence, published in Texas in 2010:
Library of Congress catalogue.
28. Book whose subject is adolescent antisocial behavior, published in Sofia: Library of
Congress catalogue.
29. Book whose subject is treatment of people suffering from extremely frequent or suddenly
increased sexual practice, published in Minneapolis in 1989: Library of Congress catalogue
(old) and Library of Congress catalogue (new).
30. Book whose subject is treatment of language impairments, published by Oxford university
press in 2007: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
31. Simplicity: video in Italian, video in English, text in Italian and text in English
32. Book whose subject is protection of the natural environment in less developed countries,
published in Geneva after 2010: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
33. Book whose subject is sexually transmitted viral infections published in English in 1995:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
34. Book whose subject is pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other
people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion (published in New York in 2013):
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
35. Book whose subject is statistical methods and models for psychosocial science (published
in New York in 2010): Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
36. Book whose subject is bioneurology, published in 2014 by Fabbri: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
37. Book whose subject deals with the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics,
published in Vienna in 2006: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
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38. Book whose subject deals with cooperative learning, published in Trento in 2014 (in Italian,
translated from Engish): Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
39. Book whose subject deals with psychological aspects of judge’s decision making process,
published in Oxford in 2003: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
40. Book whose subject is atypical development of mental processes involved in perceiving,
attending to, remembering, thinking about, and making sense of the people in our social
world, published in Italian in 2010: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
41. Book whose subject deals with antipanic agents prescribed to treat the panic symptoms,
published in London in 1999: Library of Congress catalogue.
42. Books whose subject deals with perphenazine (a typical antipsychotic drug): one published
in 1974, one published in 2011 by Wiley, one published in New York and Frankfurt in 2011:
Library of Congress catalogue.
43. Collection of essays whose subject deals with anxiolytics, published in New York by
Routledge in 2013: Library of Congress catalogue.
44. Book whose subject deals with anxiolytics, published in San Diego in 2013: Library of
Congress catalogue.
45. Book whose subject is compulsion to watch television programming, published in
Maryland: Library of Congress catalogue.
46. Book whose subject is the interaction between a psychotherapist and a patient (it is the
means by which a therapist and a client hope to engage with each other, and effect
beneficial change in the client), published by Springer in 2002: Library of Congress
catalogue.
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47. Book whose subject is the interaction between a psychotherapist and a patient (it is the
means by which a therapist and a client hope to engage with each other, and effect
beneficial change in the client), published in Boston in 1996: Library of Congress catalogue.
48. Book whose subject is the interaction between a psychotherapist and a patient (it is the
means by which a therapist and a client hope to engage with each other, and effect
beneficial change in the client), published by Norton in 2015: Library of Congress
catalogue.
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Name search
1. Center for educational research and innovation (published in 2005): Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
2. Development centre of the Organization for economic cooperation and development
(published in 1999, whose subject deals with nations with social or business activity in the
process of rapid growth and industrialization): Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
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Number of classification search
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
2. http://www.nova.edu/library/help/misc/dewey.html
3. http://dewey.info/
4. http://opac.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/opac/controller.jsp?action=dewey_browse
5. http://www.deweybrowse.org/
6. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/view/dewey/
7. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/summaries/
8. http://www.oclc.org/dewey/resources/summaries.en.html#ten
9. http://www.library.illinois.edu/ugl/about/dewey.html
10. http://bpeck.com/references/DDC/ddc.htm
11. http://www.slideshare.net/tullynp/dewey-decimal-classification-explained
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Number of classification search exercises
1. Book whose subject deals with computers in neurology, published in English in 2007:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
2. Book whose subject deals with social aspects of cities which use ITC’s to enhance
performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage
more effectively and actively with its citizens, published by Maggioli in 2013: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
3. Books whose subject deals with biological basis of learning: one published in 1985, one
published in 1999 by Massachusetts institute of techonoly: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
4. Book whose subject is study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals,
published in Milano in 2010: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
5. Books whose subject is decision-making in economics, one published by Emerald in 2008,
and one published in Chicago in 2013: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
6. Book whose subject deals with medical ethics, published by Harvard university press in
1993: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
7. Book whose subject deals with psychology of human sexual behavior and originally written
in English, published by Ponte alle Grazie in 2011: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
8. Book whose subject deals with verb forms in native south American language family:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
9. Book whose subject is newspapers in UK, published in 1975: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
10. Book whose subject is the branch of philosophy concerned with the possibility and limits of
knowledge, published by Bompiani in 2014: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
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11. Rivista, pubblicata a partire dal 1986, il cui soggetto siano gli effetti dei fattori psicologici,
sociali, cognitivi ed emotivi sulle decisioni economiche di individui e istituzioni: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
12. Libro il cui soggetto siano gli aspetti sociali della comunicazione scritta e verbale,
pubblicato a Bologna nel 2014: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
13. Book whose subject is controversial knowledge, that is topics that have, at one point or
another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researcher,
published by Princeton university press: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
14. Book whose subject is urban legends, published in English in 1999: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
15. Book whose subject is ergonomics, published in 2014 in English: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
16. Book whose subject is intercultural relations, published in English in 2015: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
17. Book whose subject is design and making of multimedia learning, published in Trento in
2014: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
18. Book whose subject deals with computers in medicine, published by Oxford university
press in 2001: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
19. Book whose subject deals with computers in medicine, published by McGraw-Hill in 2006:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
20. Book whose subject deals with biological basis of learning, published in English in 2007:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
21. Book whose subject is study of the behavior and mental processes of non-human animals,
published in Milano in 2010: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
22. Book whose subject is decision-making in economics, published by University of Michigan
press in 1993: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
23. Book whose subject deals with professional ethics, published in Rome in 2009: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
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24. Book whose subject deals with neurology of decision-making, published in London in 2005:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
25. Book whose subject deals with verb forms in native south American language family:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
26. Book, not written by Arlene Rossen Cardozo, whose subject is newspapers in USA,
published in 1993: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
27. Book whose subject is the branch of philosophy concerned with the possibility and limits of
knowledge, published by University of Chicago press in 2000: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
28. Book whose subject is study the effects of social, cognitive, and emotional factors on the
economic decisions of individuals and institutions and the consequences for market prices,
returns, and the resource allocation, published in Oxford in 2013: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
29. Collection of essays in English whose subject deals with social aspects of visible bodily
actions to communicate particular messages, published in 2003: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
30. Book whose subject is controversial knowledge, that is topics that have, at one point or
another in their history, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researcher,
published by Routledge in 2005: Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
31. Book whose subject is urban legends, published in Harlow in 1999: Catalogo bibliografico
trentino.
32. Book whose subject is human factors and ergonomics, published in 2011: Catalogo
bibliografico trentino.
33. Book whose subject is intercultural relations, published by Oxford university press in 2013:
Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
34. Book whose subject is design and making of multimedia learning, published by Routledge
in 2013 (509 pages): Catalogo bibliografico trentino.
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Journal research
1. Frequent traveler
2. The decision making processes undertaken by consumers in regard to a potential market
transaction before, during, and after the buy of a product or service.
More generally, decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action
from among multiple alternatives. Common examples include shopping and deciding what
to eat. Decision making is said to be a psychological construct. This means that although
we can never "see" a decision, we can infer from observable behaviour that a decision has
been made. Therefore we conclude that a psychological event that we call "decision
making" has occurred. It is a construction that imputes commitment to action. That is,
based on observable actions, we assume that people have made a commitment to effect
the action.
3. Framing change: Hunza (Pakistan) in treble vision – 1930s and 1990s.
4. Affirmative action.
5. The behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness
while increasing another organism's fitness.
6. Rational choice theory, with special reference to the features of “strict preference” and
“indifference”.
7. The revolt which took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 6th. century
AD. It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city
being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. It remains today one of
the world's deadliest ever riots. It happened when the factional teams (some kind of
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political parties), one of which was named “green”, arrived at the hippodrome for the
races.
8. Articles about the 1994 mass killing against hundreds of thousands of Ruanda's political
moderates, conducted by an ethnic group of that country.
9. In a journal that deals with cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief and/or a
course of action among several alternative possibilities, look for articles whose abstract
refers to generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to
problems.
10. In a journal that deals with neural aspects of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing,
existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing
different types of information, look for articles whose abstract refers to acquisition of
knowledge through the experience of day-to-day situations (if nothing found: choose a
journal that deals with musical education in UK).
11. In a journal that publishes papers on the study of health care decisions, look for articles
amongst its keywords there is diagnostic procedure.
12. In a journal devoted to clinical treatment of mental disorders in the Nordic countries, find
an article (published after 2000) which abstract refers to relationships between gender
dysphoria and transvestitism, with reference to the diagnostic and statistical manual of
mental disorders.
13. In a journal particularly devoted to sexual assault, find articles which abstract contains
words related to unwanted and obsessive attentions by individuals (and sometimes groups
of people) to others (the behaviors are related to harassment and intimidation).
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14. The American academy of dermatology reports that to feel a sense of guilt for having a
tattoo is common in the United States. Among a group of 18- to 50-year-olds surveyed in
2004, 24 percent reported having a tattoo and 17 percent of those considered getting their
tattoo eliminated. Find journal articles about this topic.
15. In a journal (published since 1996) particularly devoted to all disorders like bulimia
nervosa, anorexia nervosa and binge drinking, find articles which abstract refers to
relations between overwhelming desire to purchase products or services and pathological
computer use.
16. In a journal devoted to visual representation of brain, find an article which keywords refer
to exam of patients with brain damage to determine which brain structures were damaged
and to that extent this influences the patient's behaviour.
17. Find articles (published in a journal which deals with pathological cognitive development)
which abstract refers to the studies of a specific learning disability involving innate
difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic by employing procedure that measures
brain activity by detecting associated changes in blood flow.
18. In a journal (available from 2008) devoted to techniques and processes used to create
images for clinical purposes (in this case, to the cure of heart diseases), how many articles
which abstract refers clearly to the use of sonogram of the heart were published in 2008?
19. An article which abstract refers to the unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals
based on their sex (published in 2014 in a journal which deals with Indian gender studies).
20. An article which abstract refers to insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses
among individuals (published in 2013 in a journal devoted to the economic analysis of all
decisions made by households).
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