Courses Taught:
Advanced Seminar in Cognitive Psychology: Categorization, Judgment and Decision Making
Research Interests:
Professor McDaniel conducts research in the general area of human learning and memory. His most significant lines of work encompass several areas: prospective memory, encoding processes in enhancing memory, retrieval processes and mnemonic effects of retrieval, functional and intervening concept learning, and aging and memory. One unifying theme in this research is the investigation of factors and processes that lead to memory and learning failures. In much of this work, he has extended his theories and investigations to educationally relevant paradigms.
Selected Publications:
McDaniel, M. A., Einstein, G. O., & Jacoby, L. L. (2008). New considerations in aging and
memory: The glass may be half full. In F. Craik & T. Salthouse (Eds.), The Handbook of
Aging and Cognition , 3rd Edition (pp. 251-310). Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press.
McDaniel, M. A., Einstein, G. O., & Jacoby, L. L. (in press). New considerations in aging and
memory: The glass may be half full. In F. Craik & T. Salthouse (Eds.), The Handbook of
Aging and Cognition , 3rd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
McDaniel, M. A., & Einstein, G. O. (2007). Prospective memory: An overview and synthesis
of an emerging field. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McDaniel, M. A., Roediger, H. L., III, & McDermott, K. B. (2007). Generalizing test-enhanced
learning from the laboratory to the classroom. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 200-
206.
McDaniel, M. A., & Busemeyer, J. R. (2005). The conceptual basis of function learning and
extrapolation: Comparison of rule and associative based models. Psychonomic Bulletin &
Review, 12, 24-42.
McDaniel, M. A., & Einstein, G. O. (2005). Material appropriate difficulty: A framework for
determining when difficulty is desirable for improving learning. In A. F. Healy (Ed.),
Experimental cognitive psychology and its applications (pp. 73-85). Washington, D.C.:
American Psychological Association.
Einstein, G.O. & McDaniel, M.A. (2004). Memory Fitness: A Guide for Successful Aging. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. |
