A Festschrift in Honor of
Alice F. Healy
College Professor of Distinction
June 7-8, 2014
Boulder, Colorado

Schedule

*All events will be held in Gold/MCDB Biosciences A2B70 unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, June 7
Sunday, June 8
Poster Session

Saturday, June 7

8:30am – 9:30amSpeaker and Out-of-Town Check-In and Continental Breakfast in Muenzinger Psychology E214
9:45am – 10:00amIntroductory Remarks
10:00am – 10:25amErica Wohldmann
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
California Sate University, Northridge

Planting a Seed: Applications of Cognitive Principles for Improving Food Choices

10:30am – 10:55amRobert Bjork
Distinguished Research Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California Los Angeles

Desirable Difficulties in Vocabulary Learning

11:00am – 11:25amRobert Proctor
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University

Influence of Action-Effect Feedback on Learning and Performance of a Key-Pressing Task

11:30am – 1:30pmGroup Photo; Lunch
1:30pm – 1:55pmHenry L. Roediger III
James. S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor
Department of Psychology
Washington University

Forgetting the Presidents

2:00pm – 2:25pmImmanuel Barshi
Research Psychologist
Human Systems Integration Division
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The Comprehensive LOFT: Translating Training Principles into Guidelines

2:30pm – 2:55pmRichard Gerrig
Professor
Psychology Department
State University of New York, Stony Brook

Meaning in Context

3:00pm – 3:30pmBreak; Snack in Muenzinger Psychology E214
3:30pm – 3:55pmRichard Shiffrin
Luther Dana Waterman Professor of Cognitive Science
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Indiana University

A Mysterious Finding About Question Order in Surveys and a Quantum Account

4:00pm – 4:25pmTimothy P. McNamara
Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty and International Affairs
Department of Psychological Sciences
Vanderbilt University

Does "Alice" Prime "Neely"?

4:30pm – 4:55pmJames Kole
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Northern Colorado

What's the Problem? Familiarity, Working Memory, and Transfer in a Problem Solving Task

6:00pm – 9:00pmDinner in University Memorial Center 235

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Sunday, June 8

8:30am – 9:30amContinental Breakfast in Muenzinger Psychology E214
9:00am – 10:15amPoster Session in Gold A2B70
10:30am – 10:55amJames S. Nairne
Reece McGee Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University

Learning and Remembering with a Stone-Age Brain

11:00am – 11:25amElizabeth Ligon Bjork
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California Los Angeles

Can Multiple-Choice Testing Induce Desirable Difficulties? Evidence from the Laboratory and the Classroom

11:30am – 11:55amDanielle S. McNamara
Professor
Department of Psychology
Learning Sciences Institute
Arizona State University

From Generating in the Lab to Tutoring Systems In Classrooms

12:00pm – 12:15pmClosing Remarks

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Poster Session

Poster 1Vivian L. Schneider (1)
Alice F. Healy (1)
Immanuel Barshi (2)

Specificity and transfer of training in following navigation instructions with different response types

(1) University of Colorado Boulder
(2) NASA Ames Research

Poster 2Holly Krech Thomas

The value of contemplative practice in college courses and its role in learning

Bethany College

Poster 3Adam Young (1)
Judith Sims-Knight (2)

The role of metacognition in the deliberate practice of self-paced sports tasks

(1) University of Colorado Boulder
(2) University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Poster 4Liang Tao (1)
Alice F. Healy (2)

Word identification in Chinese and English prose passages by native and nonnative speakers varying in fluency

(1) Department of Linguistics, Ohio University
(2) University of Colorado Boulder

Poster 5David A. Havas (1)
Christopher B. Chapp (2)

Rhetoric of rapport: Linguistic patterns for emotional alignment in U.S. presidential speeches

(1) University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
(2) Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Poster 6Shana K. Carpenter
Chad S. Fernandez

The effects of testing on memory for meaningful and ambiguous visual images

Iowa State University

Poster 7Shaw L. Ketels
Alice F. Healy
Matt Jones
Lakshmi Lalchandani
Diane K. Martichuski

Comparing recall and recognition in the use of classroom response systems

University of Colorado Boulder

Poster 8Lindsay Anderson Tack
Alice F. Healy
Matt Jones

Isolating the effects of different feedback contents on learning

University of Colorado Boulder

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