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Trina Kershaw
Professor
Psychology
Contact
508-999-8346
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Education
| 1998 | Widener University | B.S. in Psychology |
| 2002 | University of Illinois at Chicago | M.S. in Psychology (Cognitive) |
| 2006 | University of Illinois at Chicago | Ph.D in Psychology (Cognitive) |
Teaching
- Cognitive Processes
- Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology
- Psychology of Individual Differences
- Psychology of Learning
Teaching
Programs
Programs
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.