Deborah R. Tindell

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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Texas A&M University

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (May, 1998)

Dissertation Title: Is blocking in word fragment completion caused by automatic or deliberate retrieval?

Committee Chair: Steven M. Smith, Ph.D.

M.S. in Psychology (August, 1994)

Thesis Title: Negative priming in word fragment completion: Implicit or explicit?

Committee Chair: Steven M. Smith, Ph.D.

California State University, Chico

B.A. in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude (May, 1992)

Wilkes University

• Assistant Professor (from Fall 1998 to present)

Texas A&M University

• Instructor/Lecturer (from Fall 1996 to Spring 1998)

• Graduate Assistant (from Fall 1992 to Spring 1996

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

American Psychological Association

Eastern Psychological Association

Faculty Advisor to the Women's Mentoring Program at Wilkes University

Faculty Advisor to the Psychology Club at Wilkes University

Member of Admissions and Financial Aid Committee at Wilkes University

Board of Directors for Step-by-Step, Inc.

COURSES TAUGHT:

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Human Memory

Memory blocking and recovery

Created memories/ False memories

Knowledge and creativity

Fixation in problem solving

EPA Travel Award (1998)

• Travel funds used to attend the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in boston, MA, where I will present a paper titled "The effects of divided attention on blocking in word fragment completion."

Graduate Student Research and Presentation Grant (Dissertation Grant) (Fall, 1997)

• Awarded by the Office of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University

Psychology Research/Travel grant (1997)

• Travel funds used to attend the 38^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Philadelphia, PA) where I will coauthor a poster titled "The role of source memory in the recognition of falsely recalled material."

Psychology Research/Travel grant (1996)

• Travel funds used to attend the 37^th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society Chicago, IL) where I coauthored a paper titled "Priming and category structure in created memories."

Psychology Research/Travel grant (1995)

• Travel funds used to present paper titled "Blocking in word fragment completion: Automatic or intentional?" at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R., Pierce, B. H., & Gilliland, T. R. (2001). The use of source memory to identify one's own episodic confusion errors, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 27, 362-374

Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., Tindell, D. R., Sifonis, C. M., & Wilkenfeld, M. J. (2000). Category structure and created memories, Memory & Cognition, 28, 386-395.

Smith, S.M., Sifonis, C.M., & Tindell, D.R. (1998). Hints do not evoke solutions via passive spreading activation. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R. (1997). Memory blocks in word fragment completion caused by involuntary retrieval of orthographically related primes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 23, 355-370.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW:

Smith, S.M., Sifonis, C.M., & Tindell, D.R., Dodds, R. Incidental Cues and Incubation: Primuing vs. Spreading Activation. Under review at Memory & Cognition.

Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., Tindell, D. R., Sifonis, C. M., & Wilkenfeld, M. J. Priming false memories in category cued recall. Under review at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Smith, S.M., Ward, T.B., Sifonis, C.M., Tindell, D.R., & Wilkenfeld, M.J. Priming false memories in category cued recall. Under review at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Tindell, D. R. Is blocking in word fragment completion caused by automatic or deliberate retrieval?

Tindell, D. R. & Smith, S. M. Memory obstructions: A review of temporary forgetting in lexical memory.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R., & Balfour, S. P. Blocking, recovery, and tip-of-the-tongue states.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R., Pierce, B. F., & Gilliland, T. R. The effect of directed forgetting on the priming of created memories.

Smith, S.M., Widner, R.L.,Jr., Vaid, J., & Tindell, D.R. Effects of paraphrasing on memory and the resolution of tip-of-the-tongue states.

Vaid, J., Tindell, D. R., & Frenck-Mestre, C. Incidental memory for number format in bilinguals: A replication.

Wilkenfeld, M. J., Sifonis, C. M., Tindell, D. R., & Smith, S. M. Effects of experimentally induced knowledge on creativity in a conceptual combination task.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Smith, S.M., Gilliand, T.R., Gerkens, D.P., Pierce, B.H., and Tindell, D.R. (November, 1998). Dissociation's of False Memory Measures: Cued recall vs. Stem Completion. Presented at the convention of the Psychometric Society, Dallas, TX.

Tindell, D.R. (1998, February). "The effects of divided attention on blocking in word fragment completion." Paper to be presented at the meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Smith, S.M., Tindell, D.R., Gilliland, T.R., Pierce, B.H., Sifonis, C.M., & Wilkenfeld, M.J.

(1997, November). "The role of source memory in the recognition of falsely recalled material." Poster to be presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Tindell, D. R., (1997, May). "Automatic memory blocks." Paper presented at the Texas Area Conference on Cognition (ARMADILLO), Dallas, TX.

Smith, S. M., Tindell. D. R., Gilleland, T. R., & Pierce, B. H. (1997, May). "Recognizing your own false recall." Paper presented at the Texas Area Conference on Cognition (ARMADILLO), Dallas, TX.

Smith, S. M., Gilleland, T. R., Tindell, D. R., & Pierce, B. H. (1997, May). "Directed forgetting and recognition failure in primed false cued recall." Paper presented at the meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., Sifonis, C. M., Tindell, D. R., & Wilkenfeld, M. J. (1996, November). "Priming and category structure in created memories." Paper presented at the meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.

Tindell, D. R., & Smith, S. M. (1996, May). "Blocking in word fragment completion: Automatic or intentional?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., Gleaves, D. H., Sifonis, C. M., Pierce, B., Tindell, D. R., & Wilkenfeld, M. J. (1996, May). "Category structure in created memories." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Sifonis, C. M., Smith, S. M., Ward, T. B., Tindell, D. R., & Wilkenfeld, M. J. (1996, May). "Category structure and priming in created memories." Poster presented at the Texas Area Conference on Cognition (ARMADILLO), Austin, TX.

Tindell, D. R., Wilkenfeld, M. J., Sifonis, C. M. & Smith, S. M. (1995, May). "Effects of knowledge on creativity in a conceptual combination task." Poster presented at the Creative Concepts Conference, College Station, TX.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R., & Balfour, S. P. (1995, May). "Memory blocking, TOTs & incubation." Poster presented at the Texas Area Conference on Cognition (ARMADILLO), College Station, TX.

Smith, S. M., Tindell, D. R., & Balfour, S. P. (1995, May). "Blocking, tip-of-the-tongue

reports, and incubation in word retrieval." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Smith, S. M., & Tindell, D. R. (1994, November). "Transfer-appropriate patterns of blocking." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Vaid, J., Tindell, D. R., & Frenck-Mestre, C. (1994, November). "Incidental memory for number format in bilinguals." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Smith, S. M., Carr, J. A., & Tindell, D. R. (1993, April). "Fixation and incubation in word fragment completion." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.