Psychology and Cognitive Science
| Department: | Department of Psychology |
| Library: | Stauffer Library |
| Faculty Representative: | Daryl Wilson daryl.wilson@queensu.ca 32611 |
Liaison Librarian: | Gillian Akenson |
Recommend a New Collection Acquisition
Collection Policy Outline
General Purpose:
- To support teaching and research in psychology and cognitive science through the Ph.D. level, and individual or group research at the faculty or post-doctoral level. Critical and therapeutic aspects of psychiatry are handled by the Health Sciences Library and courses in education psychology are offered by the Faculty of Education.
Languages:
- English is preferred but all major western European languages are collected.
Geographical Areas:
- North America and Europe.
Type of Material Collected
:- books: monographs, bibliographies, proceedings of conferences, etc.
- serial publications: series and periodicals
- statistical data
- indexing and abstracting services
Fields of research:
- addictions
- biofeedback and self-control
- behavioural medicine
- behaviour therapy and modification
- cognitive psychology
- cultural psychology
- electroencephalography
- forensic psychology
- history of psychology
- learning theory
- life-span development
- neuropsychology
- perception
- personality theory and assessment
- physiological psychology
- psychometrics
- psychopathology
- sleep
- social psychology
- stress
- statistics
Note* Material relevant to some of the more clinical areas listed may be housed in Bracken Library.
Subjects and Collecting Levels:
(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)
Areas to be collected at level B:
- addictions:
- alcoholism
- smoking
- drug addiction
- behavioural medicine:
- stress and stress relief
- pain
- behavioural therapy and modification
- human sexuality
- cognitive psychology:
- mathematical models
- artificial intelligence
- robotics
- psycholinguistics
- memory
- thought
- information processing
- reading
- language and thought
- cultural psychology:
- acculturation (immigrants & refugees)
- cross-cultural impacts on thinking and reasoning
- developmental psychopathology:
- high-risk children
- autism spectrum disorders
- language disorders
- bullying
- aggression
- effects of early trauma
- stress and coping in families of individuals with developmental delay
- electroencephalography:
- evoked potentials
- event-related potentials
- forensic psychology:
- sexual offences
- eye-witness testimony
- incarceration
- violence
- female offenders
- learning theory:
- classical conditioning
- operant conditioning
- ethology
- life-span development:
- adolescence
- cognitive development
- developmental cognitive neuroscience
- developmental disabilities
- developmental research methods
- developmental theory
- infant development
- language development
- social cognitive development
- socio-emotional development
- perception and action:
- visual sensation and perception
- auditory sensation and perception
- tactile sensation and perception
- auditory perception across the lifespan
- music perception
- psychophysics
- attention
- visual scene processing
- perception-action system
- hand-eye coordination and object manipulation skills
- virtual reality environments
- speech perception and production
- personality theory and assessment:
- stability and change in personality
- the self
- personality and behaviour prediction
- classification of personality
- psychometrics:
- measurement theory
- test construction
- mental testing
- physiological psychology:
- psychopharmacology
- side effects of anti-psychotic medications
- neurotransmission
- psychoneuroendocrinology
- brain stimulation
- behavioural toxicology
- functional brain mapping
- immunology
- basic motivational and reward systems
- interface between motivation and cognition
- neural plasticity
- animal models of fear
- animal models of learning and memory
- animal models of addiction
- psychopathology:
- affective disorders
- paranoia
- schizophrenia
- anxiety disorders
- Alzheimer disease
- Parkinsonism
- psychotherapy
- suicide and parasuicide
- counselling
- psychosomatic disorders
- sexual dysfunction
- sleep:
- sleep regulation
- sleep disorders
- circadian rhythms
- social psychology:
- sex roles and gender
- ethnic relations
- attitudes
- stereotypes
- risk-taking behaviour
- persuasion
- motivated social cognition
- health psychology
- committed relationships
- statistics:
- univariate and multivariate techniques
- statistical inference
Areas to be collected at level C:
- addictions
- behavioural medicine
- behavioural neuroscience
- behaviour therapy and modification
- cognitive psychology
- cultural psychology
- electroencephalography
- forensic psychology
- human factors (ergonomics)
- life-span development
- neuropsychology
- perception
- personality theory and assessment
- psychometrics
- physiological psychology
- psychopathology
- sleep
- social psychology
- statistics
Policy last revised: July 2008