The Japanese Assooiation for Behavior Analysis laPanese亅 ournal of Behavior Analysis 1996 , >ol . 9, No . 1、 29 36 纛 難 DEAP : ASoftware Program for Analyzing Literature Searches in Psychology KANAME MocHizuK 【 ! Va 亡 10η ∂1 ' nst ' ω fθ of ! 敗 !lt ' med ' a Educat ' on ABSTRACT DEAP ( DEscriptor Analyzer Program )is a software program that analyzes the results of searches of the PsycLIT database. The program shows the frequency of descriptors in apPropriate and inapPropriate retrieval , and

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... ts out redundantdescriptors . This informa − tion helps the researcher to refine and focus subsequentsearches . D [APwas written in Per1 , and can be used on MS − DOS , Macintosh OS , and Unix operating systems . 【 0" wOrdS database , information retrieval , computer software , instrumentation, Iiterature searches