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Department of Psychology Phone:
(516) 632-7844 (Research and teaching) Fax: (516) 751-5084 E-mail: harriet.waters@sunysb.edu Date of birth: October 27, 1949 Father: Georgios Hagi Kyriacou Salata (Cyprus) Mother: Paraskevie Triandaphilithes (Skoura/Sparta, Greece) Citizenship: United States Marital Status: Married (two children, George, Theodore) Education
University of Minnesota, Institute of Child Development, Ph.D. 1976. University of Colorado, Boulder, M.A. 1973 (Experimental Psychology). SUNY Stony Brook, B.A., cum laude, 1971 (Psychology). Employment
History
Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1976-1978. University
and Department Service
Associate Chairman for Graduate Studies (Psychology), 1996-2001 Member, University Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects, 1983-1995. Psychology Department Representative, University Senate Psychology Department Representative, Arts & Sciences Senate Memberships
in Professional Organizations American Psychological Association (Developmental & Experimental) Society for Research in Child Development American Psychological Society Psychonomic Society International Sociaty for Research in Behavioural Development American Educational Research Association - Division C (Learning and Instruction) Eastern Psychological Association Piagetian Society Society for Text and Discourse Current
Research Support .....Center
for Mental Health Promotion. Script-like mental representations of
early . Review and Editorial
Activities Child Development Developmental Psychology Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior (Memory & Learning) Journal of Educational Psychology Developmental Review Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Journal of Reading Behavior National Science Foundation Guest Reviewer, Society for Research in Child Development, Memory Development Program Committee, Biennial meeting, 1979. Guest Reviewer, American Educational Research Association, Language and Reading Processes Program Committee, Annual meeting, 1981. Guest Reviewer, Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Development Program Committee, Biennial meeting, 1983, 1987. Guest Reviewer, American Educational Research Association, Learning and Cognitive Development Program Committee, Annual meeting, 1983, 1987, 1992. Teaching
Graduate Courses and Seminars: Seminar
on Computer-Aided Instruction Undergraduate Courses: Seminar
on Cognition and Computers
Current Research
Schema development and elaboration in children's repeated production of prose passages. Relationships between verbalized knowledge, strategy use, and problem solving in young children. Development of planning skills during the preschool years. Mental representation of children's and adults' relationship representations. Co-construction processes and the elaboration of social scripts. |
