Sheila Black, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Primary Concentration:
  Secondary Concentration:
Cognitive Psychology   Geropsychology
     
Contact Information:
  Courses:
Office: Gordon Palmer, Rm. 183

PY 101 Introduction to Psychology

PY 491 Seminar in Psychology: Adult      Development and Aging

PY 470 Cognitive Psychology

PY 693  Cognitive Aging

PY 560  Graduate Cognitive Psychology  Course

Phone: (205) 348-0613
FAX: (205)  348-8648  
E-Mail: sbpsych31@aol.com 
  Website:  

Research Interests:

Age-related changes in semantic satiation

Memory Training and Aging

Age-related changes in decision making and social judgments

Distinctiveness and Episodic Memory

Effects of Diabetes on memory and other cognitive processes

Culture and Cognition

 

 
Research Affiliations: Geropsychology Concentration
  Social Concentration
 
Recent Publications:

Roskos-Ewoldsen, B. B, & Black, S. R. (2006).  Aging and creative thinking. Journal of           Creative Behavior.   Manuscript accepted for publication.

 

Black, S. R.,  Spence, S. A., & Safiya, O. R.  (2004).  Contributions of African Americans to the field of P sychology.  Journal of Black Studies, 35, 40-64.

 

Black, S. R. (2004).  Age-related changes in cognition among African Americans.  African        American Perspectives, 10, 106-118.

 

Black, S. R.  (2003).  A review of semantic satiation  .In Serge P. Shohov (Ed.),  Advances in   Psychology Research, Volume 26,( pp. 95-106).  Huntington, NY:  Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

 

MacGregor, M. W., Davidson, K. W., Barksdale, C., Black, S.R., & MacLean, D.  (2003). The impact   of  adaptive defense use on resting blood pressure.  Journal of Psychosomatic Research    55, 531-545.