2008-2009 Academic Year Conferences, Presentations, & Workshops

(Students are indicated with an asterisk. Includes recent graduates.)

June 2008

The following presentations were made at the Eastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (ETOP) hosted by James Madison University, Staunton VA (2008, June):

Apple, K. J., Barron, K. E., Irons. J. G., Lawrence, N. K., Reis-Bergan, M. J., Saville, B. K., & Zinn, T. E., A few of our favorite things: Activities and demonstrations for teaching psychology.
Buch, K., Barron, K. E., & Spaulding, S., The what, why, and how of creating a Psychology Learning Community.
Talley, C., Serpell, Z., & Pastor, D., Sociocultural instruction within the General Education Curriculum: Using multicultural training to enhance learning objectives.

Daniel, D. B. (2008, June). Using Power to Ruin a Perfectly Good Lecture. Presented to the Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Civic Engagement, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

Daniel, D.B. (2008, June). University Teaching as Co-Dependence: An Intervention. Invited plenary address, Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Civic Engagement, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

July 2008

Luci, K.*, Kasey, J.C.*, Kushwaha, M.*, Stanley, M.*, Ackerman, E.*, Stewart, A., & Talley, C. (2008, July). Promoting multicultural awareness in pre-professional health care service providers. International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 19th International Congress. Bremen, Germany.

August 2008

The following symposiums and posters were presented at the August 116th annual American Psychological Association, Boston, MA (2008, August):

Baker, S. C., Education in a virtual world: An introduction to Second Life.
Baker, S. C., Lantinga, S., & Frantz, S. Workable course policies: Meaning what we say.
Frantz, S., Frickle, R., & Baker, S.C., Why do you have a syllabus? And do you really need one?
Daniel, D. B., Factors Associated with Learning from Textbooks (and Many that Aren’t)
Daniel D. B., The Human Factors of Pedagogy: Student Tendencies and Technology Don’t Always Mix.
Kahn, A. S., Workshop: Teaching the Psychology of Women.
Irons, J. G., Schmidtke, K. A., Johnson, J., Martin, K.*, & Sylvester, M.*, Does Caffeine Function as a Flavoring Agent in Sodas?: A systematic Replication of Griffiths and Vernotica (2000).
Saville, B.K.,From laboratory to lecture hall: Applying psychology in the classroom. In S. L. Chew (Chair), Building bridges—Connecting the research, theory, and practice of teaching.

September 2008

Harris, C. M., Cameron, S. L., Amato, H. K., & Martino-McAllister, J. (September 2008). Displacing Wikipedia: Information literacy for first-year students. Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Ashville.

October 2008

The following posters and symposiums were presented at Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference Best Practices - Getting Connected: Best Practices in Technology-Enhance Teaching & Learning in Psychology in Atlanta GA. (2008, October):

Andre, J.T. & Baker, S.C., Psychology as a Natural Science Online
Apple, K.J. & Reis-Bergan, M.J., Online Tools to Promote Student Collaboration
Baker, S.C. & Reis-Bergan, M.J., Going Virtual: An Introduction to Second Life
Harris, C.M. & Kaplan, U., Comprehensive Hybrid Course Development (Symposium and Workshop)
Reis-Bergan, M.J.,Baker, S.C.,Apple, K.J., &Zinn, T.E., Faculty-Student Communication, Beyond Face to Face
Serdikoff, S.L., Technology and Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The following posters were presented at James Madison University’s annual CISAT Faculty Research Day, Harrisonburg, VA. (2008, October):

Serdikoff, S.L., Toward increasing the cost-effectiveness of contingency management: Using percentile schedules and escalating quality of reinforcement in an intervention designed to reduce smoking in college students.
Hall, M.D., Bimodal Integration Mechanisms for Phonemes and Emotional Expressions During Speech.
Irons, J.G., Does Acute Caffeine Administration Improve Learning?
Andre, J.T., Exploring the Characteristics of Blind-Walking to Targets.
Grayson, J.H., Virginia Child Protection Newsletter.

The following presentations and posters were given at the annual meeting of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology, Walnut Creek, CA. (2008, October):

Ovitt, E.*, Krakosky, L.*, Koepfler, J.*, Brewster, J., & Stoloff, M., Using the MMPI-2 RC Scales to Predict Performance in Police Officers.
Koepfler, J.* Krakosky, L.*, Ovitt, E.*, Brewster, J., & Stoloff, M., Using the IAT Reasoning Test to Predict Aggression in Police Officers.
Englert, D., Brewster, J., Koepfler, J.*, Tussey, C., Buffington-Vollum, J. Ovitt, E.*, Krakosky, L.*, Characteristics of Decredentialed Federal Agents in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations

The following presentations and posters were given at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta, GA. (2008, October):

Halsey, P. A.*, Robertson, S. H.*, Robertson, L. M.*, Capik, N. A.*, & Serdikoff, S. L., Using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) to assess the putative anxiolytic effects of Valerian.
Robertson, S. H.*, Halsey, P. A.*, Robertson, L. M.*, Capik, N. A.*, & Serdikoff, S. L., Assessing the putative anxiolytic effects of Kava administration in rats using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM).

Abrahamson, C.E., (2008, October).Enhancement of cognitive processing within the instructional process. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Las Vegas, NV.

Akerson, E., Stewart, A., & Talley, C. (2008, October). Building multicultural competency. A workshop presented by the JMU Center for Faculty Innovation.

Gibson, P.R., Suwal, S.*, & Sledd, L.G.* (2008). Services requested and received by consumers with chemical sensitivities at the Centers for Independent Living. Paper delivered as part of the breakout session “Environmental Sensitivities as Disabilities: Barriers and Accommodations” at the Southwest Conference on Disability October 1-3, 2008, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The following papers were presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Education Research Association, Rocky Hill, CT. (2008, October):

Brown, A.R.*, Barron, K.E., & Melchione, D.M*. Living the good life in college: A multidimensional approach to measuring college student life satisfaction.
Pastor, D., Barron, K.E., Miller, B.J., & Davis, S.L. A latent profile analysis of college students’ achievement goal orientation.

November 2008

The following faculty and students made presentations at the annual meetings of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Orlando, FL. (2008, November):

Sax, K.*, Christensen, O.*, Leighton-Herrmann, E., Schultz, B., Evans, S.W., Shribman, B., and the WGBH Interactive Kids Group. The efficacy of a ten-session parent training program in reducing caregiver strain in families of children with ADHD.
Rainear, C.*, Van Eck, K., Schultz, B.K. & Evans, S.W. Assessing clinically significant change for participants of the Challenging Horizons Program.
Van Eck, K., Evans, S.W., Hoza, B., Mikami, A.Y., Owens, J.S. & Serpell, Z.N. Social impairment for children and adolescents with ADHD: Etiology and intervention.
Van Eck, K., Crowley, D.*, Evans, S.W., Flory, K. & Serpell, Z.N. Goal orientation and academic achievement for middle school students with ADHD.
Sadler, J.M., Christensen, O.A.*, Brady, C. E., Sax, K.*, Rainear, C.* & Evans, S.W. The effect of pacing on academic interventions in a six-week Summer Treatment Program.

Abrahamson, C.E., (2008, November.)Understanding differences of traumatization and dissociation as a result of community values, ideals and beliefs. Paper presented at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Chicago, IL.

Daniel, D. B. (2008, November) How Students Do and Don't Learn from Publisher-Provided Materials. Fall Introductory Psychology Regional Workshop, MHHE, New York City, NY.

Hall, M. D. & Beauchamp, J. W. (2008, November). Relative contributions of spectral and temporal dimensions to the identification of musical instrument timbres. Presented at the annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM), Chicago, Illinois.

Hall, M. D. & Schuett, J.* (2008, November). Limits on the number of concurrent auditory streams in arpeggiated one sequences. Poster presented at the annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM), Chicago, Illinois.

Stoloff, M. L. (2008, November). Deal With It! Workshop presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Heads of Departments of Psychology. Atlanta, GA.

December 2008

Barron, K.E. (2008, December). What motivates JMU students to learn? A workshop presented by the James Madison University Center for Faculty Innovation.

Jackson, J. A*., Hoyle, J. A.*, Robertson, S. H.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. (2008, December). Using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) to evaluate the putative anxiolytic effects of St. John’s Wort administration in rats. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Maryland Association for Behavior Analysis, Baltimore, MD.

January 2009

Baker, S.C., Hawkins J.L., Kruck, S.E., & Stevens, K.E. (2009, January). Come get your Second Life! A workshop series presented on Second Life’s as an educational resource, East Campus Library JMU.

Buskist, B., Dunn, D., Daniel, D.B., Littleford, L., Gurung, R.A., Henderson, R., & Hailstorks, R. (2009, January). Blueprint for the Future: An Update from the National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology. National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.

Daniel, D.B. (2009, January). The Ecology of Pedagogy: The interaction of context, practitioner, and pedagogy on student learning. Developmental Area Brown Bag Series, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.

Daniel, D.B. (2009, January). University Teaching as Co-Dependence: An Intervention. Invited plenary address, National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.

February 2009

Bell, C. Brown, M. Irons, J. G., & Davis, Q. (2009, February). The Semester Project: Benefits and Strategies for Students' Long Term Investment in Course Concepts. A paper presented at The Southeastern Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Atlanta, GA

Daniel, D.B. (2009, February). How Students Do and Don't Learn from Publisher-Provided Materials. Winter Introductory Psychology Regional Workshop, MHHE, La Jolla, CA.

Harris, C. M. & Chappell, M. A. (2009, February). Engaging students with blogs and other free web-based tools. 5th Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Center for Instructional Technology, James Madison University

Jarvis, B. P.*, Rosenbaum, L. K.*, & Irons, J. G. (2009, March). Effects of Acute Caffeine Administration on Classroom Learning. A poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburg, PA.

Reis-Bergan, M.J., Apple, K.J., & Koziol, B.* (2009, February). Experimental Comparison of Google Docs and Microsoft Word for Student Collaboration. Presented at the 5th Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference at James Madison University

The following presentations were made at the 21st annual Southeastern Teaching of Psychology Conference, Atlanta, GA. (2009, February).

Saville, B.K., & Zinn, T.E. Incorporating interteaching into your classes: Using psychology to teach psychology. Invited workshop.
Irons, J. G. & McCarthy, M. Helping Students Consume Knowledge: Using food to teach Psychological Principles. Paper presented.

March 2009

The following presentations and posters were given at the 5th annual Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis conference. Harrisonburg, VA (2009, March).

Halsey, P. A.*, Robertson, S. H.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. Assessing the putative anxiolytic effects of Valerian administration in rats using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM).
Irons, J. G., & Jarvis, B. P.* Give them data and they will come: Verifying behavior in contingency management and other ideas.
Lambert, T.*, & Saville, B. K. Delay and effort discounting: Predicting performance in an interteaching-based course.
Miner, E. R.*, Mayberry, L.*, Willstein, S.*, Robertson, S. H.*, Dudkin, M.*, Howard, C.*, Irons, J. G., & Saville, B. K. Caffeine and friends: Examining the effects of caffeine on impulsivity.
Robertson, S. H.*, Halsey, P. A.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. Using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) to assess the putative anxiolytic effects of Kava.
Saville, B. K., Gisbert, A.*, Kopp, J.*, & Telesco, C.* Internet addiction and delay discounting in college students.
Saville, B. K., Atkins, B.*, Columbe, R.*, Gesualdi, C. R.*, & Schlottmann, A.* Effort-based decision making.
Sorg, A. N.*, Saville, B. K., & Irons, J. G. A comparison of behavioral and clinical measures of impulsivity.
Vasi, A. E.*, Melchione, D.*, Dudkin, M.*, Sorg, A. N.*, & Irons, J. G. Contingency Management of Exercise.

Bhalla, M., Baker, S., Beins, B., Dunn, D.S., Prohaska, V., & Zlocovitch, M. (2009, March). Report on the APA National Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology (NCUEP): A blueprint for the future of undergraduate education in psychology.Symposium presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Pittsburgh, PA.

Hall, M. D. (2009, March). Relative contributions of spectral and temporal dimensions to source identification. Human Research & Engineering Directorate Seminar Series, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland.

April 2009

Barron, K.E. (2009, April). Adopting a person X context perspective in achievement goal research. Symposium discussant at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Emily, B., Clarke, E., Kaplan, U., Muhonja, B., Utter, B., Walker, J.(April 2009). What do you really want your students to learn in your course? Presented at JMU’s Center for Faculty Innovation Workshop.

May 2009

Daniel, D. B. (2009, May). Emerging Pedagogies in the Developmental Course. Opening Keynote, Society for Research in Child Development’s Teaching of Developmental Science Institute, Denver, CO.

Benedict, J. (May 2009). Just-in-Time-Teaching (JiTT), JMU’s Center for Faculty Innovation Symposium Workshop.

Barron, K.E. (2009, May). What motivates JMU students? Center for Faculty Innovation Workshop

Daniel, D. B. (2009, May).Getting Their Technology to Work for Your Students. "The Future of Teaching and Learning" Professional Development Conference, 2009, Denver Transfer Initiative, Denver, CO.

Daniel, D. B. (2009, May). If It Doesn’t Work It Isn’t Pedagogy: Teaching and Learning in the Real World. Professional Development Conference, 2009. Devry University, North Brunswick, NJ.

Daniel, D. B. (2009, May). Teaching as Co-Dependence. Professional Development Conference 2009. Devry University, North Brunswick, NJ.

Daniel, D. B., Immordinao-Yang, M. H., & Willingham, D. (2009, May). Neuroscience in the
Classroom: Debating the Debates. Symposium presented at the Biennial meeting of the
International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Harris, C. M. (May, 2009). Preparing to teach online: Site navigation, directions, instructions. 2009 CIT Faculty Summer Institute for Online Course Development, James Madison University.

The following posters and presentations were made at the 16th annual teaching institute of the Association for Psychological Science – Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APS-STP), San Francisco, CA. (2009, May):

Irons, J.G. Bridging the Gap: Translating Research into Practice…in the Classroom!
Barron, K.E. Creating Learning Communities (and a Community of Learners) in Psychology
Buskist, W., Saville, B.K., Irons, J.G. Can Teaching Save Psychology?
Vasi, A.E.*, Melchione, D.M.*, Dudkin, M.A.*, Willstein, S.M.*, Sorg, A.N.*, Irons, J.G. Contingency Management and Fitness.

The following presentations and posters were given at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Phoenix, AZ. (2009, May):

Egan, T. E.*, Power, L. F.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. Training Discrimination of Blood Alcohol Level following Oral Ethanol Self-Administration in College Students.
Halsey, P. A.*, Robertson, S. H.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. An examination of the anxiolytic effects of Valerian administration in rats using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM).
Power, L. F.*, Egan, T. E.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. College students’ discrimination of Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) following oral ethanol self-administration.
Robertson, S. H.*, Halsey, P. A.*, & Serdikoff, S. L. Using the Elevated Plus Maze (EPM) to examine Kava Kava’s putative anxiolytic effects.

June 2009

Abrahamson, C.E. (2009, June). Needs for acquisitioned archives of clinical neuropsychology in utilizing “differential dissociation” with primary PTSD diagnosis. Presentation given at Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Abrahamson, C.E. (2009, June). Possible ramifications of western clinical assessment with PTSD diagnosis for victims of trauma in developing societies. Discussant at the 11th European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Oslo, Norway.

Barron, K.E., & Haas, L. (2009, June). Understanding Student Learning & Motivation. Human Resources’ Student Workshop Series. James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

Daniel, D.B. & Irons, J.G. (June, 2009). Untitled. An invited workshop presented to staff at the Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington, DC.

Lera, R. F. Bansal, D. Rife, T. and Talley C.P. (2009, June). Transcriptional Regulation of the NOS1 Enzyme in Diabetes: Response to Advanced Glycation Endproducts and Insulin American Diabetes Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

The following presentations and posters were given at the 3rd annual Eastern Teaching of Psychology Conference, Harrisonburg, VA. (2009, June):

Lambert, T., & Saville, B. K. Do impulsivity and effort predict performance in an interteaching-based course? Reis-Bergan, M.R., Grayson, J.H. Incorporating Service Learning into Upper-level Psychology Courses.
Trice, A.D., Evans, W.F., Brewster, J.A., Evans, C. Planning to Teach Cross-Cultural Psychology Abroad.

July 2009

Abrahamson, C.E. (2009, July). Motivating students within the classroom context through personal connections. Paper presented at the International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

August 2009

Benedict, J. (2009, August). Just-in-Time Teaching. A workshop presented at JMU’s New Faculty Orientation.

Hall, M. D., Schuett, J.*, Becker, C.* & Ritter, E.* (2009, August). Individual differences in the effects of spectral centroid on perceived pitch. To be presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC 2009), Indianapolis, Indiana.

Lee, M.R., Ariale, M.*, Castro, C.*, Eaton, K.*, Ressin, A.*, Shinozaki, H.*, Tuazon, V.*, Vanderpoel, C.*, & Vitt, L.* (2009). Diverse phenotypic features of Asian Americans and vulnerability to racial microaggressions. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Asian American Psychological Association, August 5, 2009, Toronto, Canada.

McCarthy, M.A., Dunn, D.S., Halonen, J.S., Baker, S.C., & Hill, G.W. (2009, August). Developing a department self-study using quality benchmarks.Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario.

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