Heather Bailey

Psychological Sciences
Assistant Professor

Contact Information

414 Bluemont Hall
785-532-0807
hbailey@k-state.edu

Education

• Post Doc, Washington University, St. Louis
• Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Kent State University, 2009
• M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Wake Forest University, 2005
• B.S. in Psychology, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, 2002

Research Interests

• Individual and age-related differences in working memory
  • Evaluating the efficacy of different strategies that people use to help improve their memory
  • Why performance on working memory tasks predicts how someone will perform on other important cognitive tests such as an IQ test or the SAT
  • How individuals effectively segment, or chunk, incoming information and update their working memory representations accordingly

Courses Taught

• PSYCH 350 Experimental Methods in Psychology
• PSYCH 460 Cognitive Psychology
• PSYCH 715 Psychology of Aging
• PSYCH 957 Seminar in Cognitive Processes