Department of psychology

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John Dunlosky, Ph.D.

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington (1993)

Research Interests

Areas of research interest involve self-regulated learning, including how aging in adulthood influences strategy use and effectiveness, how individuals of all ages monitor on-going learning as well as dynamically control study and retrieval. Research programs focus on understanding the theoretical bases of these and other components of self-regulated learning. Special emphasis is placed on how aging in adulthood influences these components, and applications of this theory to enhance learning of adults of all ages. View Dr. Dunlosky's vita.

Lab Site: Metacognition Lab

Courses Frequently Taught

• Psychology of Aging (undergraduate)
• Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate)
• Cognitive Psychology (graduate)
• Cognitive Aging (graduate)
• Metacognitive Seminar (graduate)

Recent Publications

Dunlosky, J., & Metcalfe, J. (2009).  Metacognition.  Beverly Hills, CA: SAGE.

*Lipko, A., Dunlosky, J., *Hartwig, M. K., Rawson, K. A., Swan, K., & Cook, D. (in press).  Using standards to improve middle-school students’ accuracy at evaluating the quality of their recall.  Journal of Experimental Psycyhology:  Applied.

*Ariel, R., Dunlosky, J., & *Bailey, H. (2009).  Agenda-based regulation of study-time allocation:  When agendas override item-based monitoring.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  General, 138, 432-447.

*Bailey, H., Dunlosky, J., & Hertzog, C. (2009).  Does differential strategy use account for age-related deficits in working-memory performance?  Psychology & Aging, 24, 82-92.

*Bailey, H., Dunlosky, J., & *Kane, M. J. (2008). Why does working memory span predict complex cognition? Testing the strategy-affordance hypothesis. Memory and Cognition, 36, 1383-1390.

Dunlosky, J., & *Lipko, A. (2007).  Metacomprehension:  A brief history and how to improve its accuracy.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 228-232.

Dunlosky, J. & Kane, M. J. (2007).  The contributions of strategy use to working memory span: A comparison of strategy-assessment methods. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1227-124

*Denotes graduate student author.