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College of Arts and Sciences

Dr. Dawn M McBride

Professor
Psychology
Office Hours
Fridays 10:30-11:30 am in Zoom (email me for the link)
Office Phone
(309) 438-7146office
phone
Email
dmmcbri@ilstu.eduemail
Website
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/dmm... website
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Research

Current Courses

390.029Advanced Research Apprenticeship

253.001Cognition & Learning

395.002Honors Thesis: Psychology

368.001Human Memory

418.001Learning And Cognition

282.001Peer Mentoring Preparation

391.029Scholarship Of Teaching & Learning Apprenticeship

292.029Special Projects: Peer Mentoring

290.029Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

291.029Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching

253.001Cognition & Learning

499.029Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

290.029Special Projects: Research Apprenticeship

291.029Special Projects:Undergraduate Teaching

Teaching Interests & Areas

- Research Methods
- Statistics
- Human Memory
- Cognition & Learning

Research Interests & Areas

- Prospective Memory
- False Memory
- Implicit Memory
- Forgetting

Ph D Psychology

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

MA Social Science

University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

BA Psychology

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

2015 Jim Johnson Mentor Award Recipient

Psi Chi/SPA
2015

Book, Chapter

McBride, D. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2018). Lab manual for statistical analysis. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA
McBride, D. M., & Workman, R. A. (2017). Is prospective memory unique? A comparison of prospective and retrospective memory. In B. Ross (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 67. San Diego, CA: Academic Press/Elsevier.
McBride, D. M. (2015). Implicit memory. In R. Scott & S. Kosslyn (Eds.), Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. New Jersey: Wiley & Sons.

Journal Article

Coane, J. H., McBride, D. M., & Xu, S. (2020). The feature boost in false memory: The roles of monitoring and critical item identifiability. Memory, 28, 481-493.
McBride, D. M., & Flaherty, M. (in press). Comparing costs in time-based and event-based prospective memory. Memory, 28, 918-925.
McBride, D. M., Coane, J. H., Xu, S., Feng, Y., & Yu, Z. (2019). Short-term false memories vary as a function of list type. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 2726-2741.
Rosenbaum, D. A., Fournier, L. R., Levy-Tzedek, S., McBride, D. M., Rosenthal, R., Sauerberger, K., VonderHaar, R. L., Wasserman, E. A., & Zentall, T. R. (2019). Sooner rather than later: Precrastination rather than procrastination. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 229-233.
VonderHaar, R. L., McBride, D. M., & Rosenbaum, D. A. (2019). Task order choices in cognitive and perceptual-motor tasks: The cognitive load reduction (CLEAR) hypothesis. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 81, 2517-2525.

Textbook, New

McBride, D. M. (2020). The process of research and statistics in psychology (1st edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2020). Lab manual for research and statistics(4th edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M. (2018). The process of statistical analysis in psychology. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA

Textbook, Revised

McBride, D. M. (2024). The process of research in psychology (5th edition). Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2024). Lab manual for psychological research (5th edition). Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M. (in press). The process of research in psychology (4th edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M., & Cutting, J. C. (in press). Lab manual for psychological research (4th edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
McBride, D. M., & Cutting, J. C. (2019). Cognitive psychology: Theory, process, and methodology (2nd edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Presentations

McBride, D. M. (January, 2019). Exposure to psychological science: Using empirical journal articles in courses of all levels. A workshop presented at the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology meeting, St. Pete's Beach, FL.
Examining Differential Involvement of Executive Functions in Event-Related Prospective Memory Based on Focality. Psychonomics. (2016)
A comparison of time-based and event-based prospective memory: Effects of delay. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2015)
Differentiating Executive Functions and the Relation of Focality in Event-Related Prospective Memory. Psychonomics. (2015)
Effects of delay on recognition memory for emotionally valenced faces. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2015)
Mood and Emotional Regulation Effects on False Memories. Psychonomics. (2015)
Response Dynamics in Time- and Event-Based Prospective Memory. Psychonomics. (2015)
The role of categorical, associative, and phonetic relations in inducing false memory. 87th Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Midwestern Psychological Association. (2015)
What’s in a name? Deriving DOG from wolf and fox or leash and bone?. 54rd Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Psychonomics Society. (2013)
Effects of categorical priming on prospective memory performance.. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Psychonomic Society. (2012)