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Psychology

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Subject: Psychology

Purpose

The Collection Development policy is a used as a guide to shape relevant collections and to ensure consistency in collection development. The decision to purchase library materials is primarily the responsibility of the Collections Librarian in consultation with faculty in the Department.

This policy has been developed by Debbie Chaves, the Science Librarian, in cooperation with and Dr. Joanne Lee, the Department Faculty Library Liaison.

Focus

  • To support teaching, study and research up to the graduate level, as well as to support faculty research.
  • Areas of special interest must include community psychology, social and developmental psychology, and brain and cognition psychology. Within each specific area of individual faculty members may make recommendations for items to be included in the collection.

Scope

  • Language: primarily English language materials are collected.
  • Place of Publication: priority is given to materials from North American, European or Northern Asian publishers. Significant works from other areas may also be acquired.
  • Dates of Publication: emphasis is placed on recently published works. Works, both serial and monograph with a publication date older than ten years may be selected for transfer to the Annex for long term storage or withdrawal.
  • Chronological Period: works with a focus on current research will be emphasized. Those works having a historical overview fundamental to the nature of psychology will be considered.
  • Geographical Areas: priority is given to works with a North American focus, with secondary emphasis on the British Isles, Europe and Northern Asia. Other areas of the world will be considered as the need arises.
  • Publishers: works from scholarly and academic publishers are emphasized.

Types, formats, and readership of materials collected

  • Materials with academic-level readership are selected. Donations from private collections may be considered if they fill a gap in the collection.
  • Web-based formats for reference sources, journals and indexing sources are preferred.
  • Single copies of books in print formats are generally selected. Web-based formats are selected on a title by title basis, especially if the title is of interest to users at multiple Laurier campuses. Duplication of print across Laurier campuses is generally avoided.
  • Selected textbooks and study aids are obtained to complement undergraduate textbooks used in the current curriculum.
  • Excluded types include textbooks, abridgements, study aids, limited editions, juvenile, works by vanity presses, reprints and partial contents (eg. single issues of journals, electronic versions of single chapters of books). Titles already held by the Universities of Waterloo and Guelph may be excluded.
  • The following items, as they apply to Psychology, will be considered for inclusion in the collection upon the request of the Psychology faculty:
    • Proceedings of conferences, symposia, international congresses, etc.
    • Selected Canadian and American theses
    • Reports of non-governmental organizations such as research centres, university departments, etc.
    • Numerical and/or spatial data.

Subjects collected and collecting priorities

Collecting priorities are categorized into 3 levels:

A - highest emphasis

The collection includes major published materials required to support the core teaching and research at the highest degree level offered by the Department.

B - secondary emphasis

The collection includes a selection of materials to complement the discipline as a whole, although it may not be a primary focus for courses.

C - selective emphasis

Materials, including reference materials and basic journals and indexes are collected to introduce and define an area.

Subjects collected

Classification

Collecting priority

Behavioural neuroscience

QP360

 

Behaviour Genetics. Simple Systems.

QH457; BF699-BF708

C

Neuropsychology. Physiological Psychology. Psychophysiology (Biological basis of motivated behaviors)

QP360-BF360.5;

A

Cognition in Animals (Comparative Cognition)

QL 785

A

Reinforcement (Drug reinforcement processes)

BF319-BF319.5; BF207

A

Learning and Memory

BF318; BF370-BF395

B

Molecular neurobiology

QP356.2

B

Motivational systems

BF503

B

Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology (Neurobiology)

QP355.2

C

Perception processes

BF241

A

Psychopharmacology

BF207-BF209.T5

A

Motivation. Perceptual-motor learning (Timing Behavior)

BF295

 

Cognitive neuroscience

QP360

A

Affective Processes

QP360.5

 

Computational Modeling

BF531

C

Motor Control

BF295-BF299

B

Cognitive Neuroscience (Neurocognition)

QP360.5

A

Neuropsychology

QP360

A

Perception

QP351-QP355.2; QP60-QP360.5

B

Neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI, Event related potentials)

RC386.6; QP376.5

A

Cognition

 

A

Attentional Processes

QP405

 

Autonomic and Conscious Retrieval

BF321

A

Decision Processes

BF448

A

Encoding

QP406; BF371

B

Human Memory Storage and Retrieval

BF444

B

Implicit Memory

BF378I55

A

Language Comprehension and Production

BF456

A

Problem Solving

BF449

A

Psycholinguistics

BF455-BF463.V45

C

Reasoning

BF442

A

Skilled Performance

BF295

C

Perception

 

B

Auditory Processes

BF251

 

Chemical and Mechanical Processes

QP455;BF295

A

Colour Processing

BF241

C

Face Perception

BF242

B

Neural Networking Modeling

QP363

A

Object Recognition

QP475

B

Sensation

BF233

A

Somatosensory Processes

BF231-233; QP431

B

Speech Perception

BF463.S64

A

Visual Attention and Search

BF463.S64

A

Primary Prevention and Mental Health Promotion

  

Community Development

RA790.55

 

Protection, Assistance and Relief (Family Support)

HV697-HV700.7

A

Health Promotion

RA427.8; RA790.53

B

Primary Prevention

RJ499; BF173;RA790.7

A

School Intervention

LB1027.5-LB1027.55

A

Volunteer Organizations

HV41; RC440.2

A

Community-Based Development and Community Mental Health

 

C

Community Mental Health

RA790.55

 

Handicapped (Disabilities)

HV1494-HV3024

A

Social Support (family relationships in mental illness)

HM131; RC455.5

A

Self-Help Groups and Mutual Aid

HV547; RC489

A

Culture and Gender Diversity

  

Aboriginal Issues (Canada)

E78

B

Culture and Law (Citizen Participation)

K 487

A

Community Research

HT110

A

Conflict Management (Conflict Resolution)

HM136; BF637 I48

C

Critical Psychology

BF39.9

B

Ethnopsychology (Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology)

GN502

B

Determinants of Health

RA427; R724.5

A

Feminism and Psychology of Women

BF175.4.F45 (psychoanalysis); HQ1206; BF201.4

A

Gender Diversity (cross-cultural)

GN479.65

A

Human Services (Delivery, Design, and Administration)

HV40; HV43

B

Organizational Behavior; Industrial Psychology (Organizational Psychology)

HF5548.8; HD58.7

C

Community Development (Participatory and Action Research

HN49; H62 (general)

A

Program Evaluation and Needs Assessment

H62; HV11

A

Psychological Impacts of Disaster

BF789.D5

B

Community Psychology (Psychological Sense of Community)

HM131

A

Qualitative Research Methods

H61

A

Quality of Life

HN25

C

Pluralism (Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation)

HM1271

A

Social Change and Political Action

RC454; HN90

A

Social Ecology

HM206

B

Stress

BF575S75

C

Social

  

Altruism

BJ1474

C

Applied Social Psychology

HM251

A

Autobiographical Memory

BF378.A87

A

Attitudes and Beliefs

BF327; BF773; HM1181

B

Attribution

HM1076

B

Conformity

HM291; HM1246

C

Ethnopsychology (Cross-Cultural Psychology)

GN502; BF121; HM1033

B

Dissonance

BF227.C63;HM251

C

Clinical Health Psychology; Psychology and Medicine (Health Psychology)

R726.5-R726.7; RA394

B

Impression Formation

HM1081

B

Interpersonal Relations

HM1106

A

Intimate Relationships (Liking and Love)

BF575.L8

A

Philosophy. Methodology; Social Psychology - Methodology

BF38.5; HM251

B

Motivation, Emotion and Mood

BF501;HM1201; BF531-BF538;BF521

A

Personality Theories, Measurement, Traits and Processes

BF501-BF505; BF531-BF593; BF521

A

Prejudice and Stereotyping

HM1091-HM1096

A

Psychology of Religion (also collected by Religion & Culture)

BL53

C

Self and Identity (e.g. Self-Concept, Self-Esteem)

BF697.5S43; HM1051; HM1061

A

Social Cognition

BF720; HM1041

A

Social Groups, Group Dynamics and Inter-Group Relations

HM716; HM711; -HM753

A

Social Influence and Persuasion

HM1176; HM1196; BF637.P4

B

Socialization. Enculturation

HM686

C

Violence and Aggression

BF575.A3; RC569.5.A34; HM1116

C

Developmental

  

Adolescence

BF724-BF724.3

B

Aging (Cognitive; Interpersonal Relations)

BF724.55.A35;BF724.55C63; BF724.85.C64; BF724.8-BF724.85; HQ1061

B

Attachment

BF575.A86; BF723.A75 (child);

B

Cognitive Development

BF720.C63 (infant); BFBF723.C5 (child); BF724.3.C58 (Adolescence);BF724.85.C64 (Adulthood)

A

Computer Literacy

QA76.9.C64

A

Conceptual Development (e.g. Knowledge Acquisition & Retention)

LB1051

A

Cross-Cultural Contexts of Development

BF713; BF721-BF722

B

Emotional Development

BF723.E6

B

Eyewitness Testimony & Forensic Psychology

RA1148; K 5483;BF241; KF9672

A

Family Psychology

RC488.5

B

Gender Role Development

HQ1075

A

Identity Development

BF697

B

Infancy

BF719

C

Second Language Acquisition (Language Development & Bilingualism (2nd Language Development))

P118; RC425

A

Learning Disabilities

RJ506.L4

A

Life Change events (Life Transitions)

BF637.L53

A

Memory Development; Strategy Instruction & Development

BF723; LB1057

A

Midlife Crisis (Midlife Development)

HQ1059.4; BF724.65.M53

C

Moral and Prosocial Development

BF723

A

Mathematics Development & Learning (New addition)

  

Narrative and Discourse Analysis

P302

A

Non-parental Child Care

HQ778.5

C

Parenting (between parent & infant; between parent & child; between parent & adult child)

HQ755.84; BF723.P25; HQ755.85; HQ755.86; BF720.P37

A

Child Development. Socialization; Developmental Psychology. Child Psychology. Interpersonal Relations (Peer Relations)

BF723.I646; HQ783

B

Perceptual Development (infant; child)

BF720.P47; BF723.P46;

B

Political Psychology (Political Development)

JA74.5

C

Puberty

BF724

B

Reading Development and Disabilities

LB1050.53; LB1050.5; BF456.R2

A

Religions Development

BL625.5; BL51-BL53

C

Romantic Relationship/Development

BF724.3.L68 (youth);

B

Self-Perception (Self-concept)

BF697; BF720.S44 (infant); BF723.S28 (child); BF723.3.S35 (youth)

B

Social Cognition (Socialization of Cognition)

HM131; HM1041

C

Temperament

BF798

C

Theory of Mind; Understanding of the Mind

BF161-BF168

B

Methodology and Research

  

Mathematics and Statistics (e.g. multivariate analysis, GLM, HLM, SEM, MR)

BF39

A

Psychological Testing and Measurement (e.g. Reliability, Validity, Factor Analysis)

BF38.5-BF29.2

A

Research/Experimental Design and Data Analysis

BF176; BF431; BF698.8

A

Statistical Software (e.g. SPSS, LISREL, HLM, Amos)

HA32

B

General Works

  

Ethics

BF47; BF76.4

B

History, Philosophy, and Critical Psychology

BF81-BF108; BF39-BF39.8; BF39.9

A

Professional Development

BF75-BF76; BF77-BF80.8

C

Theories and Systems

BF38

C

Education

  

Assessment

LB1131

B

Curriculum and Programs

LB1140.4 (Early childhood and preschool education); LB1570 (Elementary education); LB2361 (Higher education); LB1180 (Kindergarten); LB2806 (Planning); LB1523 (Primary education); LB1628 (Secondary education); LC6233 (university extension); LC1048.C87 (Vocational education)

C

Instruction

LB1028.3-LB1029

A

Learning and Achievement

LB1062.6

A

Policy

LB1060

C

School Psychology

LB1027.55

C

Special Education

LC3965

A

Industrial/Organizational (I/O Psychology)

Also collected by School of Business and Economics

 

Consumer Behavior (Consumer Psychology)

HF5415.32

C

Interviewing

BF637.I5; HF5549.I6

C

Leadership and Management

BF637.L4

C

Performance and Job Satisfaction

HF5549; HF5549.5.J63

C

Task Analysis

HF5548.8

C

Vocational Guidance (Vocational Choice)

HF5381-HF5382.69

C

Clinical Psychology

  

Behavior, Emotional, and Mental Illness and Disorders

RA790.5

C

Child Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

RJ499; RJ504

A

Diagnosis and Assessment

RJ503.5

C

Hospital Care and Institutionalization

RJ504.5

C

Mental and Physical Disabilities

RC569.7 - RC574; BF727.P57; BF727.H3

C

Neurological and Psychosomatic Disorders

RC49; RC435; RC394

C

Psychotherapy

RC480; RC475-RC475.7

B

Rehabilitation

RM930

B

Sport Psychology (also collected by Kinesiology & Physical Education)

GV706.4

C

Consortial purchases with the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (Guelph, Waterloo, Laurier university libraries), with the Ontario Council of University Libraries, and on a national level through the Canadian Knowledge Research Network, are pursued.

Related materials are also purchased in support of departments and programs such as Social Work, Education, Mathematics, Sociology, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary and other Science departments. The Universities of Guelph and Waterloo also offer programs to the graduate level in Psychology. Their collections are available to Laurier students and faculty through the shared TRELLIS library catalogue.

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