Program for the Division 3 Portion of
the APA Convention
August 17 20, 2007
For a printable PDF version of the schedule, click one
of the links below:
(Please note: The schedule is still tentative)
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w Friday,
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7:30 9:00
Mentoring Session for Graduate Students and Post-docs
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10:00 11:50
Symposium: Origins of Causal Reasoning
Aaron P. Blaisdell (Chair)
Nicola Clayton:
By Hook or Crook: How Apes and Corvids
Understand Tools
Josep Call:
Causal Reasoning in the Great Apes
Alison Gopnik:
Young Childrens Causal Reasoning:
Correlations, Actions and Mechanisms
Derek C. Penn:
A Difference of Kind: Discontinuities
between Human and Nonhuman Causal Cognition
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12:00 12:50
Invited Address:
Jonathon D. Crystal
Animal Models of Cognition:
Episodic-like Memory and Metacognition in Rats
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1:00 1:50
Invited Address:
Steven E. Clark
Theory Development on the Road from Mistaken
Identification to Wrongful Conviction
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2:00 2:50
Invited Address:
Elizabeth J. Marsh
Illusions of Knowledge
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3:00 4:50
Symposium: Memory Dynamics and the
Optimization of Instruction
Opening Talk I: Elizabeth Ligon Bjork
Memory Considerations in the
Optimization of Learning: Creating Desirable Difficulties
Opening Talk II: Robert A. Bjork
Metacognitive Considerations in the
Optimization of Learning: Heuristics and Illusions
Invited Poster Presentations:
Aimee Callender & Mark McDaniel:
Text Comprehension in Education
Andrew C. Butler & Henry L. Roediger,
III:
Feedback Enhances the Benefits of
Testing
Benjamin C. Storm, Katerina Belova,
Robert A Bjork & Elizabeth L. Bjork:
The Effects of Spacing and Generation
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Jennifer C. Storm, Benjamin C. Storm,
Michael C. Friedman & Robert A. Bjork:
When Expanding Test Schedules Succeed
and Fail to Enhance Learning
Bridgid Finn & Janet Metcalfe:
The Influence of Memory for Past Test on
Metacognitive Monitoring and Control
Deanna M.
Fierman, Alice F. Healy, & Lyle E. Bourne:
Optimizing Memory for Instructions by
Varying Presentation Modality: Explorations of a Navigation Task
Jeri L. Little, Elizabeth L. Bjork,
Robert A. Bjork:
Does Retrieval Induce Forgetting,
Facilitation, or Both?
Kathy Wildman & Mark McDaniel:
Test-Enhanced Learning for Facts and
Concepts
Mathew J. Hays & Robert A. Bjork:
Expanding-Interval Retrieval Practice
and the Goldilocks Principle
Michael J. Serra:
How Do Diagrams Improve Memory for
Science Text?
Nate Cornell, Makah Leal, Timothy Wong
& Robert A. Bjork:
Categorizing Paintings: The Spacing
Effect on Inductive Learning.
Phillip Kellman & Joel Zucker:
Dynamic Sequencing in Computer-based
Learning Technology: Optimizing Efficiency for Item Memory and Perceptual
Learning
Shana Carpenter, Hal Pashler, Doug
Rohrer & Nicholas Cepeda:
Does Forced Guessing Cause One to Learn
the Wrong Answer?
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5:00 6:50
Division 6 Executive Committee Meeting
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7:30 8:50
Division 3 Executive Committee Dinner Meeting
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9:00 9:50
Division 6 Presidential Address:
Karen Hollis
Cognitive Ecology and Insect Behavior: A
Model System for Studying Learning
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10:00 10:50
Division 3 Poster Session:
Research in Experimental Psychology
(includes Graduate
Student Poster Competition)
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12:00 12:50
Board of Scientific Affairs Master Lecture:
Ed Wasserman
Humans, Animals and Computers: Minding
Machines?
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2:00 3:50
Symposium: Advancing Psychological Science by Studying
Complex Tasks and Expertise
Earl B. Hunt (co-chair) & Leo
Gugerty (co-chair):
Phillip L. Ackerman:
How Does Task Complexity Relate to Basic
and Applied Experimental Psychology?
Werner W. Wittman:
Brunswik-Symmetry, A Golden Key Concept
to Disentangle Complexity
Peter Pirolli:
Information foraging and sense making
theory: Playing both sides of the street.
Christopher D. Wickens:
Can Perceptual-Cognitive Theory be
Advanced by Complex Tasks?
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4:00 - 4:50
Division 3 Business Meeting
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5:00 5:50
Division 3 Presidential Address:
Howard Egeth
Attentional Control: From the Bottom Up
and then Back Down
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6:00 7:50
Social Hour
(Jointly Sponsored by Division 3 and Division 6)
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9:00 9:50
Invited Address:
Lynne M. Reder:
Bridging the Gap Between Implicit and
Explicit Memory: Memory Does Not Divide on Consciousness
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10:00 11:50
Symposium: Numerical Competence in Nonhuman Animals---Looking Back, Looking Forward
Michael J. Beran (Chair)
Michael J. Beran:
Enumeration,
Estimation, and Fuzzy Math by Chimpanzees
Irene M.
Pepperberg:
Grey Parrot Numerical
Competence
Jessica F. Cantlon & Elizabeth M.
Brannon:
Numerical Computation
Mechanisms in Monkeys and Humans: Abstraction,Comparison, Arithmetic
Jacky
Emmerton:
Role of Perceptual
Factors in Numerical Processing by Pigeons
Sarah T. Boysen:
Acquisition Parameters
for Establishing Numerical Representation in Chimpanzees
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12:00 12:50
Invited Address:
Alan S. Brown
False Recognition in Everyday
Experience: Taking Clues from Dιjΰ vus
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1:00 1:50
Invited Address:
Arthur P. Shimamura
Emotional Influences on Contextual
Memory
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9:00 10:50
Symposium: Language
Comprehension and Aging
Debra McGinnis (Chair)
Gabriel A. Radvansky
Aging and Deeper Understanding
Noh Soh Rim & Elizabeth A. L.
Stine-Morrow
Age Differences in Character Activation
During Narrative Comprehension
Debra McGinnis
Inferential Processes during Narrative
Comprehension in Young-old and Old-old Adults
Lise Abrams
Misspelling Perception Influences Older Adults
Recall: The Relevance of Context
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11:00 11:50
Invited Address:
Steven J. Luck
Visual Working Memory: Representation,
Process, and Function
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1:00 1:50
Invited Address:
Anthony D. Wagner
The Cognitive Neuroscience of
Remembering
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