Jennifer McCabe

Assistant Professor of Psychology (2008)

Hoffberger Science Building 117
410-337-6558
Jennifer.McCabe@goucher.edu

Education

B.A., Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), 1999
M.A. and Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Memory strategies, Metacognition/Metamemory, Teaching and Learning methods in Psychology, Short-term and working memory, Cognitive aging

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

McCabe, J., Doerflinger, A., & Fox, R. (2011). Student and faculty perceptions of e-feedback. Teaching of Psychology, 38, 173-179.

McCabe, J. (2011). Metacognitive awareness of learning strategies in undergraduates. Memory &  Cognition, 39, 462-476.

McCabe, J. A., Osha, K. L., Roche, J. A., & Susser, J. A. (2011, May). Undergraduates' knowledge and use of mnemonics: A survey study. Poster presented at the 18^th Annual APS-STP Teaching Institute, at the 23^rd Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, DC.

McCabe, J. A., Craig, A. A., Foley, J. E., Rose, A., Cephas, R. M., & Chefitz, L. S. (2011, March). Adding gestures to mnemonics: Do hands help recall? Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Susser, J. A., & McCabe, J. A. (2011, March). From the lab to the dorm room: Metacognitive awareness and use of the spacing effect. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, Massachusetts.

McCabe, J. A. (2010, November). Metacognition in college students: Predicting the outcomes of learning scenarios. Poster presented at the 51^st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

McCabe, J. A., Osha, K. L., Graves, K. A., Marx, E. R., Myrtetus, E. A., & Roche, J. A. (2010, March). Self-regulation in the classroom predicts memory performance in the laboratory. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Brooklyn Bridge, New York.

McCabe, J. A. (2010, January). Learning about memory using Teaching of Psychology. Poster presented at the 31^st Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida.

McCabe, J. A. (2009, October). Another MATOP: "Mnemonics Applied to the Teaching of Psychology." Paper presented at the 11^th Annual Mid-Atlantic Teachers of Psychology (MATOP) Conference, Largo, Maryland.

McCabe, J., & Hartman, M. (2008). Working memory for item and temporal information in younger and older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 574-600.

McCabe, J., & Hartman, M. (2008). An analysis of age differences in perceptual speed. Memory and Cognition, 36, 1495-1508.

Funded Research

Instructional Resource Award (Project title: Best Practices for Integrating Mnemonics into Psychology Instruction), Society for Teaching of Psychology, 2010. To be published on the STP web site (teachpsych.org).

Goucher Summer Science Research Program (2010)