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PSYC 355: Psychotherapy - Research and Practice: Activity 1: Who Chooses Which Words?

Professor: Jennifer McQuaid

Hands-On Exploration

Instructions

1. Read the abstract carefully

2. Find a partner to work with

3. Identify terms that you think will be listed as subject headings in a database

4. Once you and your partner have agreed on a list of subject headings, find the article in PsycInfo and compare to the subject headings listed in the article record page

4. Next, give Gemini the article abstract and ask it to generate five keywords. You can copy and paste the abstract from PsycInfo into Gemini.

5. Share what you and your partner found as well as what Gemini found in the Menti word cloud generator. Enter as many words as you want for each question.

How did each tool describe the article? What do you notice in terms of vocabulary, specificity, and potential keywords that are left out?

Share Your Words

Article Record in PsycInfo

Only click this link once you have completed steps 1-3!