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Department of Psychology

Developmental Psychology Program: Proseminar Schedule

Meeting time and location: Fridays, 12:00-1:30 , Fraser 547

Date                                                     Speaker
Fall 2007  
Aug 31 Professional Issues Workshop for Graduate Students: Career Development
Sept 7 Meagan Patterson, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Research in Education
Title: Negotiating (Non) Normality: Effects of Consistency between Views of One’s Self and One’s Social Group
Sept 21 Tiina Ojanen
Oct 5 Sara Salkind, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Occupational Therapy Education
Oct 19 Kelly McNamara, Graduate Student, Developmental Psychology Program
Title: The Company They Keep: Homophily in Preschool Friendship Dyads
Nov 2 John Colombo, Professor, Department of Psychology, Cognitive and Developmental Programs

Nov 16

Audra Sterling, Graduate Student, Cognitive Psychology ProgramTitle: An Examination of Maternal Responsivity in Mothers of Young Children with Down Syndrome

   
Spring 2008  
Jan 8 Greg Simpson, Professor, Developmental Program; Psychology Department Chair
Title: Orthographic transparency and the development of word recognition
Feb 1 Panel Discussion (John Colombo, Yo Jackson, Tiina Ojanen)
Topic: Data collection from outside the university
Feb 15 Katie Stump, graduate student, Developmental Program
Title: Friendship interlopers, social status, jealousy, and aggression in an
adolescent sample
Feb 29 Steve Reznick, Professor, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Title: The development of working memory during early infancy
** This session occurs on the fifth Friday of the month and is a joint cognitive/developmental prosem **
Mar 7 John Geldhof, graduate student, Developmental and Quantitative programs
Topic: The unique effects of active and automated self-regulation in predicting
aggression and resource control in preschoolers
Apr 4 Jackie Ratliff, graduate student, Developmental and Social programs
Topic: Relational aggression, gender, and peer regard
Apr 18 Dale Walker, Associate Research Professor, Juniper Gardens
Topic: TBA
May 2 Juan Casas; Associate Professor, University on Nebraska – Omaha
Topic: Relational aggression across the lifespan