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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 and have taught (and enjoy teaching) include:

* Psychological research methods

* Statistics - see note below

* Cognitive psychology and related topics

* Individual differences: personality and intelligence, including some psychometrics

* Behavioural learning: classical and operant conditioning, observational learning

* History of psychology with some philosphy of science

* Various other topics at an undergraduate level including developmental and social psychology.

Note regarding statistics teaching:

For the statistics course I have developed 'at home' lectures; these are Powerpoint slides with audio. Students do the lectures at home and we use class time - when I am available to answer questions - for exercises and problem solving. I have uploaded example slideshows. You are welcome to download and use them. If you are interested in seeing more, please email and I'll happily share them.

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

--- estimating the mean: estimating_the_mean (.pptx), estimating_the_mean (.ppsm)

--- introduction to one way between groups ANOVA: one_way_BG_ANOVA (.pptx), one_way_BG_ANOVA (.ppsm)

In addition, I 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. These were originally developed along with software as part of anESRC curriculum development grant(RES-043-25-0007); the software is no longer supported, but the slideshows have been modified to run as a stand-alone tutorial. You are welcome to download and modify these as well.

--- significance testing intro slides: significance (.ppt), significance (.pps)

--- reading graphs (not yet available)

--- correlations (not yet available)

--- ttest (not yet available)

Research Interests

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,

-- Maths and science learning, including dyscalculia;

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

Constructive nature of perception, memory and reasoning;

Memory improvement strategies;

Remembering names.

Publications (in reverse date order)

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., & Richler, J. J. (2012). Effect size estimates: Current use, calculations, and interpretation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 2-18. doi: 10.1037/a0024338

Fritz, C. O. (2010). Testing, generation, and spacing applied to education: Past, present and future. In A. S. Benjamin (Ed.), Successful remembering and successful forgetting: A festschrift in honor of Robert A. Bjork. London: Psychology Press.

Fritz, C. O., Francis, B., Morris, P. E., & Peelo, M. (2010). SIMPLE: Helping to introduce statistics to social science students. In C. M. Marr & M. J. Grove (Eds.) Responding to the mathematics problem: The implementation of institutional support mechanisms (pp. 51-58). Birmingham, UK: Maths, Stats and OR Network.

Fritz, C. O., Passey, D., & Morris, P. E. (2009). phase-6 AG - Analyses and results of initial research studies: An independent report. Report for phase-6.

Passey, D., & Fritz, C. O. (2008). Social inequality and uses of online resources: Perspectives highlighted from an investigation of a large online data set. Report for SAM Learning, London.

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Acton, M., Voelkel, A. R. & Etkind, R. (2007). Comparing and combining expanding retrieval practice and the keyword mnemonic for foreign vocabulary learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 499-526.

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Nolan, D., & Singleton, J. (2007). Expanding retrieval practice: An effective aid to preschool children's learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 991-1004.

Fritz, C. O. (2007). SIMPLE: A tool to aid teaching and learning of statistics. MSOR Connections, the quarterly publication of the Maths, Stats & OR Network of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (2006). How to . . . Improve your memory. The Psychologist, 19, 608-611. (Invited paper).

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. (2005). Memory. In M. Hewstone & F. Fincham (Eds.) The Blackwell Introduction to Psychology (pp. 224-246). Oxford: Blackwell.

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.

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.

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

Under review:

Fritz, C. O., Morris, P. E., Reid, B., Aghdassi, R., & Naven, C. E. (under review). Attempts to circumvent the failure-of-further-learning effect: Activities, structure, meaning and delay. Under review for Contemporary Educational Psychology. manuscript

Fritz, C. O., & Morris, P. E. (under review). Part set cuing of texts, scenes, and matrices. Under review for British Journal of Psychology. manuscript

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (under review). Cumulative measures for interpreting effect sizes in memory research. Under review for Memory. manuscript

Morris, P. E., & Fritz, C. O. (under revision). The reporting of effect sizes in cognitive research. Under review for Memory & Cognition.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

• Learning and remembering, especially with respect to the roles of practice and repetition,learning from text, multimedia learningand/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 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, chartered status

Experimental Psychology Society (UK)

Psychonomic Society

Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

National Council for Teachers in Mathematics

Other Interests and Hobbies

I enjoy baking, walking, horseriding and gardening. I also make and repair bridlework as a hobby. If I had time, I would also get back to sewing.

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

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