Step 6: Searching for articles in PsycINFO

Let’s go ahead and practice searching for articles. We’ll use the PsycINFO database (open in a new tab) for this exercise, because it widely applicable to the most areas of psychology research.

We’ll start by experimenting with our keywords for the topic of multitasking. We found that the term dual-task represents an important component of the psychological research on multitasking.

First, compare the number of results for the different keywords.