PSYC 355: Psychotherapy - Research and Practice: Activity 2: Searching with Words

1. Explore APA index terms associated with the article and use them to generate new searches. Check out the first five articles.

1. First explore the index terms, their definitions, and histories. What do you notice about how the database describes these terms? Do you agree or disagree with the terms chosen to represent these topics?
2. Use the subject search builder to craft a query. Did you get any hits, why or why not?

2. Ask Gemini to give you five articles associated with the keywords it generated. 

1. Click into each source and examine them carefully. Are they relevant? When were they published? What kinds of sources are they? (empirical journal articles, government reports, review articles, etc...)

3. Reflect

What did you notice about the sources you found using both tools? Did they find similar, overlapping, or different sources? What new or similar perspectives and research topics did they unearth?

What potential blindspots do you think each tool has when using them to conduct research?

Questions

1. What did you notice about how the database describes these terms?

2. What did you notice about the sources Gemini found? How did these sources compare to those you found by searching in the database? Were you able to find full text access?

3. What potential blindspots does each tool have when using them to conduct research?