Trina Kershaw

faculty

Trina Kershaw, PhD

Professor

Psychology

Contact

508-999-8346

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Education

2006University of Illinois at ChicagoPhD in Psychology (Cognitive)
2002University of Illinois at ChicagoMS in Psychology (Cognitive)
1998Widener UniversityBS in Psychology

Teaching

  • Cognitive Processes
  • Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychology of Individual Differences
  • Psychology of Learning

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

A survey of learning principles from simple conditioning to complex creative behavior.

A history of cognitive science as a discipline. Topics such as human learning, memory, perception, language, and attention are reviewed. Theories and research on mental processes underlying these behaviors and biological underpinnings and real-life application of these topics are studied.

Fundamentals of research methodology in psychological research including literature review, hypothesis generation, design, measurement, statistical analysis, ethics and APA format writing style. Emphasis on the selected cognate content area of cognitive psychology.

Research

Research interests

  • Transfer in educational settings
  • Creativity in engineering design
  • Insight problem solving
  • Individual differences
  • Skill learning and transfer

Select publications

  • Molly A. McCarthy , Trina C. Kershaw (2014).
    The effects of semantic priming on novel verb inflection
    Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 36, 994-999.
  • Trina C. Kershaw , Christopher K. Flynn , Leamarie T. Gordon (2013).
    Multiple paths to transfer and constraint relaxation in insight problem solving.
    Thinking & Reasoning, 19, 96-136.
  • Trina C. Kershaw , Katja Holtta-Otto , Yoon Soo Lee (2011).
    The effect of prototyping and critical feedback on fixation in engineering design
    Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 33, 807-812.

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