Subject Guide - Psychology

eBooks
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Databases
Academic Search Complete: Articles from 5,500+ journals and other sources, multiple subject areas.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Archive: articles from scholarly journals in the arts & sciences, humanities, business, etc.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium: information from leading nursing & allied health publications.
Salem Health: Full-text health reference sources, including Magill’s Medical Guide.
Films On Demand: Academic and Archival Films across all disciplines & Newsreels Collections.
Oxford Reference: Full-text general and subject-specific reference sources.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: Over 550 publications in behavioral sciences.
SocINDEX with Full-Text: Over 390 journals, over 720 books, and more.
Streaming Videos
Browse more psychology videos from Films on Demand database.
Special Topics
Web Resources
Glossary of Psychological Terms, From the APA (American Psychological Association). The APA website offers information on APA Style, various topics of psychology, etc. Membership and/or registration may be required to access some of the resources.
Psychology News, From ScienceDaily, this source offers news, articles, videos, and more
Psychology Today, the companion site of the popular magazine, Psychology Today, it offers basic information on numerous topics in psychology, limited access to articles from the magazine, and more. We also subscribe to the magazine in print, available in the Library.
Shelf Resources (RPCC Library - Gonzales Campus)
Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers (print issues)
Psychology Today
Browse Books, DVDs, and Other Shelf Resources by Shelf Number
BF 1 to BF 990 – Psychology.
BF 309 to BF 499 – Consciousness. Cognition, including learning, attention, comprehension, memory, imagination, genius, intelligence, thought and thinking, psycholinguistics, mental fatigue.
BF 692 to BF 692.5 – Psychology of sex. Sexual behavior.
BF 697 to BF 697.5 – Differential psychology. Individuality. Self.
BF 698 to BF 698.9 – Personality.
BF 712 to BF 724.85 – Developmental psychology, including infant psychology, child psychology, adolescence, adulthood.
HM 1001 to HM 1281 – Social psychology.
HM 1041 to HM 1101 – Social perception. Social cognition, including perception of the self and others, prejudices, stereotype.
HM 1106 to HM 117 – Interpersonal relations. Social behavior.
HM 1176 to HM 1281 – Social influence. Social pressure.
LB 1050.9 to LB 1091 – Educational psychology.
RC 435 to RC 571 – Psychiatry.
RC 475 to RC 489 – Therapeutics. Psychotherapy.
RC 512 to RC 569.5 – Psychopathology, including Psychoses, Neuroses, Personality disorders and Behavior problems.