Explain the difference in use between the Psychological Abstracts and the Social Science Citation Index

What will be an ideal response?


The Psychological Abstracts allow you to search based on topic. Thus, one can search the abstracts for a certain topic along with other parameters such as date or type of publication. The Social Science Citation Index allows one to search for subsequent articles that have cited a key article.

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a) fixed-ratio b) fixed-interval c) variable-ratio d) variable-interval

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a. judgment of the event affects emotion. b. emotion affects arousal. c. labeling arousal causes one's emotion. d. arousal precedes emotion

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