Step2 (plan B) - If our library does not have the article you are looking for login to ILLiad. This is an interlibrary loan request system. If you use this system they will likely have the article for you within days.
Google Scholar is an easy way to search for information on a topic. This will often supply you with a reference, then... use our library's "Journal Finder" to download a PDF:
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Here's the handout version of the above. Here is an article by our library on how to distinguish between different types of periodicals (Jounrals, magazines, peer reviewed, etc.).
Relvant articles for this course
HINT: These are just to get you started. One tactic is to use the references in these papers in your research. Every references section is a treature trove of literature on a similar topic. So find the articles they thought were important, and backtrack their ideas through the literature. Just a trick of the trade.
Alfieri, L., Brooks, P.J., Aldrich, N.J., & Tenenbaum, H.R. (2011). 
Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103 (1) 1–18. doi: 10.1037/a0021017
Anderson, J.R. (1983). Retrieval of Information from Long-Term Memory. Science, 220(4592) 25-30.
Anderson, J.R., Fincham, J.M. & Douglass, S. (1997). The role of examples and rules in the acquisition of a cognitive skill. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition,23(4) 932-945
Atkinson, R.C. & Shiffrin, R.M. (1968). Human memory: a proposed system and its control processes. In K.W. Spence (ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, Vol. 2 (pp. 89–195). New York: Academic Press.
Baddeley, A.D. & Hitch, G.J. (1974). Working memory. In G.A. Bower (ed.), Recent Advances in Learning and Motivation, Vol. 8 (pp. 47–89). New York: Academic Press.
Bransford, J.D. & Schwartz, D. L. (1999). Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal with Multiple Implications. Review of Research in Education, 24, 61-100.
Driscoll, M. (2012). Chapter 8 Psychological Foundation of Instructional Design. In R. A. Reiser and J. V. Dempsey (Eds) Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology. (3rd Ed). (p35-44) Allyn & Bacon: Boston
Gagné, R. M. (1984). Learning outcomes and their effects: Useful categories of human performance. American Psychologist, 39(4) 377-385.
Mayer, R. (2004). Should there be a three-strikes rule against pure discovery learning? The case for guided methods of instruction. American Psychologist 59(1) p.14-19.
Maslow, A. H. (1943). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review 50(4) 370-396.
Merrill, M. D. (2007). A task-centered instructional strategy. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 40(1) 33-50.
Ormrod, J. (2008). Studying cognitive phenomena with behaviorist techniques: Tolman’s work. Retrieved from
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ormrod/humanlearning/pdf%20files/3_Tolman.pdf
Pashler, H. McDaniel, M. Rohrer, D. and Bjork, R. (2009). Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9(3) 105-119. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6053.2009.01038.x
Schneider, W. & R. M. Shiffrin. (1977). Controlled and automatic human information processing: 1. Detection, search, and attention. Psychological Review, 84, 1-66.
Skinner, B. F. (1950). Are theories of learning necessary? Psychological Review, 57, 193-216.
Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines. Science, 128(3330) 969-977
Sweller, J., Clark, R. & Kirschner, P. (2010). Teaching general problem-
solving skills is not a substitute
for, or a viable addition to,
teaching mathematics. Notices of the AMS 57 (10) 1303-1304.
Thorndike, E. L. & Woodworth R. S. (1901). The influence of improvement in one mental function upon the efficiency of other functions. (I.). Psychological Review, 8 247-261
Tolman, E.C. (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review, 55(4) 189-208.