Lab Manual for Psychological Research

About Dawn M. McBrideJ. Cooper Cutting

Dawn M. McBride is professor of psychology at Illinois State University where she has taught research methods since 1998. Her research interests include automatic forms of memory false memory prospective memory task order choices and forgetting. In addition to research methods she teaches courses in introductory psychology cognition and learning and human memory; she also teaches a graduate course in experimental design. She is a recipient of the Illinois State University Teaching Initiative Award and the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship involvement and achievement. Her nonacademic interests include spending time with her family traveling watching Philadelphia sports teams (it was a good year for Philly sports this year!) and reading British murder mysteries. She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of California Irvine and her BA from the University of California Los Angeles. J. Cooper Cutting (PhD cognitive psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is associate professor of psychology at Illinois State University. Dr. Cuttings research interests are in psycholinguistics primarily with a focus on the production of language. A central theme of his research is how different types of information interact during language use. He has examined this issue in the context of lexical access within-sentence agreement processes figurative language production and pragmatics. He has taught courses in research methods statistics cognitive psychology computer applications in psychology human memory psycholinguistics and sensation and perception. He is also a recipient of the Illinois State University SPA/Psi Chi Jim Johnson Award for commitment to undergraduate mentorship involvement and achievement. His non-academic interests include gardening and reading science fiction and fantasy novels.