The 17th Annual
PITT-CMU
Graduate Student Conference
 
 

To be held on Friday, July 23, 1999
At the University of Pittsburgh
Learning Research and Development Center
Second Floor: Glaser Auditorium




Conference Program
 
 

9:00 Continental Breakfast Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC
 
 

9:15 Opening Address Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC
 
 

Things I wish I knew when I was a graduate student

David Plaut
 
 

9:30 Memory and Development- Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC

Moderator: DJ Bolger
 
 

The role of self-discovery in the revelation effect

Sonya Dougal

If something can think, is it alive? Attribution of mental states to entities and related animacy judgements

Milena Koziol

Can two year olds sort substances by color?

Rachel Chung
 
 

10:30 Break
 
 

10:40 Numbers and Letters - Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC

Moderator: Natalie Hamrick

Individual differences in activation and suppression of lexical information.

Lesley Hart

The effect of presentation rate, repetition, and lexical frequency on verbal perseverations in aphasia: Implications for priming accounts

Steve Gotts

Why do content experts read and comprehend text better than novices?

DJ Bolger

Individual differences in skill across operations of arithmetic

Martha Ziegler Morin
 

12:00 Lunch and Poster Session- 9th Floor, LRDC

Posters Presented by:

Ian Brissette: Interpersonal conflict, daily mood, and social activity: The moderating role of social network diversity.

Anthony Cate: Time and neglect: The temporal dimension on a spatial disorder

Jason Chein: TBA

Kelly Harris: TBA
 

1:30 Health - Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC

Moderator: Lesley Hart

Meta-Analysis: The role of background stress in cardiovascular responses to acute stressors.

Natalie Hamrick

Stress and DNA Repair

Michael Forlenza

Heightened arousal as a determinant of perceptions of support and help seeking.

Ian Brissette
 

2:30 Break

2:40 Instruction - Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC

Moderator: Martha Ziegler Morin

Why do content-free prompts help students learn?

Robert Hausman

The use of eye movement data in an instructional context.

Kevin Gluck
 

3:20 Closing Remarks - Glaser Auditorium, 2nd Floor, LRDC
 

Unprepared remarks:

Jonathan Schooler
 
 

5:00 Post-Conference Celebration

**Barlett Pavillion in Schenley Park**
(one with the merry-go-round near the intersection where Hobart becomes Boulevard of the Allies)