Learning and remembering, especially with respect to the role of practice and repetition and/or interest and motivation; Issues related to effective learning of statistics, maths and/or science; Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning, including investigation of biases; Memory improvement strategies; Remembering names.

Topics that I teach and have taught (and enjoy teaching) include:

* Psychological research methods

* Statistics

* Cognitive psychology and related topics

* Behavioural learning: classical and operant conditioning, observational learning

* History of psychology with some philosophy of science

* Individual differences: personality and intelligence, including some psychometrics

* Various other topics including developmental and social psychology.

My research interests include the psychological study of

Learning and remembering, including laboratory and real world experiments, especially with respect to

• the role of practice and repetition,
• learning from text,
• the role of multimedia materials,
• mathematics and science learning, including dyscalculia;

including consideration of how the above interact withprior knowledge and/or personality characteristics.

Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning;

Memory improvement strategies;

Remembering names.

Society Memberships

• American Psychological Association, including membership in the Division of Educational Psychology, the Division of Evaluation, Measurement and Statistics, and the Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• Association for Psychological Science (formerly American Psychological Society)
• British Psychological Society
• Experimental Psychology Society (UK)
• Psychonomic Society
• Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
• National Council for Teachers in Mathematics