Experimental Psychology: Developing a Research Question

• Describe some ways that research questions have been chosen.

• List some characteristics of a good research question.

• Explain some methods of finding literature relevant to a research question.

• Distinguish between library research and internet research.

• Name some good search engines for psychological research

• Describe the basic strategies for narrowing or broadening a search using a search engine.

• Explain the concepts of a backwards and forwards search, and describe how they are done.