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University of Wyoming

Prospective Memory Lab

 

            * Dr. Penningroth is actively recruiting prospective graduate students at this time.


 

An undergraduate student participating in an experiment on monitoring in prospective memory tasks.

 

 

 

 

Members of the Prospective Memory Lab, Fall 2009

 

 

 
     

 

 

Suzanna L. Penningroth, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor

University of Wyoming

Department of Psychology, Dept. 3415

1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: (307) 766-4323

E-mail: spenning@uwyo.edu

 

Current Research Topics

Prospective Memory (memory for future actions)
- Information processing in prospective memory
- Adult aging and prospective memory
- Childhood development of prospective memory
- Social-cognitive and motivational factors
in prospective memory
- Individual differences in prospective memory
- The intention superiority effect

Cognitive Aging
- Goals and aging
- Knowledge about cognitive aging

Current studies

·          Prospective memory in 2nd- and 5th-Graders: a diary study for parents (With Karen Bartsch, Ph.D.)

·          Automatic features in the intention - superiority effect (heightened activation for pending intentions)

·          Strategy Use for Real Life Prospective Memory Tasks:  Effects of Task Importance.

·          Increasing psychological critical thinking and reducing overconfidence, part two.

·          Motivational variables in real prospective memory tasks:  differences across adult age groups.

Recent Representative Publications

Chapters in Edited Books

2007

Penningroth, S. L., & Scott, W. D. (2007). A Motivational-Cognitive Model of Prospective Memory: The Influence of Goal Relevance. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Psychology of Motivation (pp. 115-128). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Penningroth, S. L., & Scott, W. D. (2008). Improving Goal-based Models of Motivation: Incorporating Research on Prospective Memory. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Psychology of Motivation (pp. 75-82). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Manuscripts submitted for Publication

2009
Penningroth, S. L. (2009). When does the intention-superiority effect occur? Activation patterns before and after task completion, and moderating variables, manuscript submitted for publication.

2008

Penningroth, S. L., & Scott, W. D. (2008). Effects of importance on strategy use in prospective memory tasks, manuscript submitted for publication.

Penningroth, S. L., & Scott, W. D. (2008).  Motivational variables in real prospective memory tasks: Differences between young and older adults, Manuscript submitted for publication.

Selected Journal Articles

2007

Penningroth, S. L., *Despain, L., & Gray, M. J. (2007). A course designed to improve psychological critical thinking,Teaching of Psychology, 34, 153-157.

2005

Penningroth, S. L. (2005). Effects of attentional demand, cue typicality, and priming on an event-based prospective memory task, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 885-897.

Penningroth, S. L. (2005). Free-recall of everyday retrospective and prospective memories: The intention-superiority effect is moderated by action versus state orientation and by gender, Memory, 13(7), 711-724.

* - Indicates graduate student

** - Indicates undergraduate student

Recent Conference Presentations

2008

Penningroth, S. L., Scott, W. D., & Ernst, S. (April, 2008). Age-Related Differences in Goal Representations, poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta.

2007

Penningroth, S. L. (August, 2007). A Comparison of Everyday Prospective Memory Across Adult Age Groups: Differences in Tasks and Motivational Variables, paper presented at the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland.

2006

*Despain, L., Penningroth, S. L., Gray, M. J. (August, 2006). Improving Psychological Critical Thinking While Reducing Overconfidence, poster presented at the American Psychological Association Conference, New Orleans.

Penningroth, S. L. (April, 2006). Knowledge about Cognitive Aging: Results from a Survey Study, poster presented at the College of Health Sciences Grand Rounds and 12th Annual Research Day, Laramie, WY.

Penningroth, S. L. (November, 2006). Motivational Factors In Prospective Memory. Symposium on Advances in Prospective Memory, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Houston.

Penningroth, S. L., & Murdock, V. (April, 2006). Age Group Differences in Real-life Prospective Memory Tasks: Differences in Goals and Rated Importance, poster presented at the 11th Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.

Grants

2007

Co-PI - Penningroth, S., & Bartsch, K. (2007-8).  Prospective memory ability in 2nd- and 5th-Graders, University of Wyoming, Faculty Grant-in-Aid.

 

Contact Suzanna Penningroth (spenning@uwyo.edu) for more information.