Improve your PsycINFO searches with the thesaurus...

...which can be accessed by clicking on the ‘thesaurus’ link in the blue bar at the top of the PsycINFO search and results screens. The thesaurus can help improve your searches in two ways. Firstly, it can help suggest alternative terms to search with, much like a traditional thesaurus, and will often suggest broader and narrow terms, too. For example, if you search the thesaurus for amnesia, then it suggests ‘memory disorders’ as a broader term, ‘retrograde amnesia’ as one of several narrower terms, and ‘forgetting’ as a related term. Secondly, it can help identify the ‘correct’ terminology to use to find articles on that topic. For example, if you search the thesaurus for cognitive dysfunction, it tells you to use ‘cognitive impairment’, while if you search for student protest, it tells you to use ‘student activism’. By using the terminology it suggests, you are likely to find better, more focused results because the terminology suggested is the language used by PsycINFO to organise and index all of its articles.