Combination searching:

✓ Combine keyword and subject searching or multiple subjects.
✓ Combine a previous searches or add new terms to a previous search.

Database Limiters:

✓ In psychology databases, after you have done a search, use the limiters available in the left menu to narrow the results to a specific age group, subject, document type, methodology and more. First, click on All filters, then in the right hand popup window, set your desired limits. Or, before you begin your search, scroll down and set some limiters.

✓ Date, Peer-Reviewed, Methodology, Classification, Tests & Measures, Populations, Gender, Age Group, and other limiters may be available to use in a database to refine your search.

Try the searches below in APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Compare the types of searches and their results.
DE = Descriptor or subject term

TOPIC: What are causes or factors that contribute to bipolar depression in women.

• "bipolar depression" AND women AND ( factors OR cause)
• DE "BIPOLAR disorder" AND (women or female) AND (depression or anxiety)

TOPIC: Does self-talk build confidence?

• self-talk AND (confidence OR self esteem)
• DE "Self-Talk" and (confidence OR self esteem)

TOPIC: Is behavior modification an effective treatment for teen eating disorders and other teen mental health disorders?

• (DE "Behavior Modification") AND (DE "Anorexia Nervosa")

TOPIC: Do videos games have a negative effect on a child's development?

• DE "Childhood Development" AND video games AND risk factors
• children AND video games AND negative effect*