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Dr Catherine Fritz

Lecturer

Degree: BA, MA, PhD Psychology

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning

Current Teaching

Topics that I teach include:

* Psychological research methods

* Statistics

For the statistics course I have developed 'at home' lectures; these are Powerpoint slides with audio. This way students do the lectures at home and use class time - when help is available - for exercises and problem solving. You are welcome to download these and use or modify them for your own purposes. I am uploading a few of these over the next week or so.

--- Sign test: sign test(.pptx format), sign test (.ppsm format)

--- Review of correlations

--- Introduction to regression

In addition, I have developed some slideshows that do not contain an audio stream but are designed for students to work through on their own. They embed occasional questions to help students assess their understanding. As above, you are welcome to download these and use or modify them for your own purposes. I will be adding these shortly.

* Cognitive psychology and related topics

* Various other topics at an undergraduate level including individual differences, psychometrics, behavioural learning and developmental psychology.

Research Interests

My research interests include the psychological study of

Learning and remembering,especially with respect to the role of practice and repetition, including laboratory and real world experiments;

Maths and science learning, including dyscalculia;

Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning;

Memory improvement strategies;

Remembering names.

Research Publications (in reverse date order)

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Acton, M., Voelkel, A. R. & Etkind, R. (in press). Comparing and combining expanding retrieval practice and the keyword mnemonic for foreign vocabulary learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Nolan, D., & Singleton, J. (in press). Expanding retrieval practice: An effective aid to preschool children's learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (in press). Ten tips on memory improvement. The Psychologist. (invited paper).

Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., Jackson, L., Nichol, E., & Roberts, E. (2005). Strategies for learning proper names: Expanding retrieval practice, meaning and imagery. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 779-798.

Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., & Buck, S. (2004). The name game: Acceptability, bonus information and group size. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 89-104.

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2002). The improved name game: Better use of expanding retrieval practice. Memory, 10, 259-266.

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Bjork, R. A., Gelman, R., & Wickens, T. D. (2000). When further learning fails: Stability and change following repeated presentation of text. British Journal of Psychology, 91, 493-512.

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2000). The name game: Using retrieval practice to improve the learning of names. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 124-129.

Wickham, L. H. V., Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2000). Facial distinctiveness: Its measurement, distribution, and influence on immediate and delayed recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 91, 99-123.

Ormerod, T. C., Fritz, C. O., & Ridgway, J. (1999). From deep to superficial categorization with increasing expertise. In M. Hahn & S. C. Stoness (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twenty First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Fritz, C. O. (1995). Consistency and change in the repeated recall of text across learning trials. Dissertation Abstracts International.

Research Publications - under review or revision

Chatzimarkou, P., Fritz, C. O., & Morris, P. E. (submitted 2006). Expanding retrieval practice: An effective technique to teach dyslexic students the spelling of ambiguously spelled words. Submitted to Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Fritz, C. O., & Morris, P. E. (submitted 2006). Part set cuing of texts, scenes, and matrices. Manuscript submitted to American Journal of Psychology.

Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., Reid, B., Aghdassi, R., & Naven, C. E. (revise & resubmit 2006). Attempts to circumvent the failure-of-further-learning effect: Activities, structure, meaning and delay. Submitted to Memory

Research Papers in Preparation

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Wade, C., & Hampson, P. J. The role of target familiarity in memory. (Experimental report, 2 experiments)

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Wade, C., & Hampson, P. J. Schedule and feedback effects on the efficacy of expanding retrieval practice for memory and transfer. (Experimental report; 3 experiments)

Morris, P. E., Fritz, C. O., et al. Improving memory by increasingly challenging practice conditions: Comparing spacing and cueing effects. (Experimental report, 2 experiments)

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. Analysis of repetition and testing effects on learning. (Literature review; substantially organized)

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. Use and reporting of effect size measures in journals of the British Psychological Society. (Analysis & commentary)

Chapters

Gelman, R., Meck, G., Romo, L., Meck, B., Frances, W., & Fritz, C. O. (1996). Integrating science concepts into intermediate English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction. In R. F. Macias & R. Garcia-Ramos (Eds.) Anthology of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA: University of California Press.

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2005). Memory. In M. Hewstone & F. Fincham (Eds.) The Blackwell Introduction to Psychology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

• 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.

Society Memberships

I am a member of the following:

American Psychological Association, including the division for Educational Psychology;

American Psychological Society;

Psychonomic Society;

Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Associated Keywords: Experimental research, Learning, Mathematics, Memory, Memory improvement, Numeracy, Psychology, Research methods, Statistics, Teaching and learning

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