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PSY 101: General Psychology: Books @ ECC

This guide will help you find resources for General Psychology course as a student at East Central College. This guide can be used for Union, Rolla or online course.

Books and documentaries that focus on Psychology are located under various call numbers in the General Collection.  "BF" section focuses on Psychology,  "H" has many titles covering the Social Sciences including parenting, gender, etc. and one more area is "R" as this is for the medical area including mental disorders, aging, etc.

BF, H and R refer to the Library of Congress call numbers, a way to shelve materials in a library.

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ECC Books about Psychology

Below is a selection of the 700+ print books focused on Psychology available at ECC Library.

Print books check out for 4 weeks.

ECC Books about Sleep or Dreams

This list of books uses the LC subject heading of "Sleep" or the subject heading of "Dreams"

ECC Books about Curiosity or Reasoning

This list of books uses the LC subject heading of "Curiosity" or the subject of "Reasoning"

ECC Books about Stress

This list of books uses the subject heading "Stress"

ECC Books about Death, Grief, Bereavement

This list of books uses the LC subject heading of "Death" or "Bereavement"

Suggested Subject Headings

Below are examples of some useful subject headings for use in searching LOCATE and other library catalogs.

Aggressivenss
Aggressiveness in children
Boys -- Psychology
Brothers and sisters
Childlessness
Children
Communication in families
Divorce
Dysfunctional families
Families
Fathers and sons
Fathers and daughters
Gay adoption
Gay couples
Gender identity
Girls -- Psychology

Happiness

Man-woman relationships
Marriage
Mate selection
Mothers and sons
Mothers and daughters
Nature and nuture
Older people Psychology
Older people Health and hygiene
Older people United States

Parent and child
Parents
Polygamy
Quality of life

Remarriage
Same-sex marriage
Sex role
Single-parent families
Stepfamilies
Stress Management
Transgender people
Work and family
Weddings