Spring 2025
Section 5139 of PSYCH1A
General Psychology -- : Jan 13 - Mar 09 2025
This is a regular start, short term section that has no regularly scheduled meetings.
Section 5358 of PSYCH1B
Introduction to Psychological Research Methods -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings.
Section 5805 of PSYCH9
Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Statistics -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
Choose how you attend each class session: (1) in class physically, (2) live online at the scheduled days and times (e.g. via Zoom – the link will be provided by the instructor once class starts), or (3) completing all course work asynchronously (e.g. via Canvas). You have the flexibility to attend in the format you choose from one class meeting to the next, as your schedule permits. Additional work is completed and submitted online. HyFlex courses help you complete your education while allowing you to adapt it to your life. All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.
Section 5979 of PSYCH9
Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Statistics -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
Section 5986 of PSYCH1A
General Psychology -- : Jan 14 - May 15 2025
Section 7001 of PSYCH34
The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination -- : Jan 13 - May 16 2025
This section has no regularly scheduled meetings. All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.
Fall 2024
Section 0191 of PSYCH11
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology -- : Aug 19 - Dec 11 2024
Choose how you attend each class session: (1) in class physically, (2) live online at the scheduled days and times (e.g. via Zoom – the link will be provided by the instructor once class starts), or (3) completing all course work asynchronously (e.g. via Canvas). You have the flexibility to attend in the format you choose from one class meeting to the next, as your schedule permits. HyFlex courses help you complete your education while allowing you to adapt it to your life.
Section 0192 of PSYCH9
Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Statistics -- : Aug 20 - Dec 12 2024
All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.
Section 0365 of PSYCH34
The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination -- : Aug 19 - Dec 13 2024
This section has no scheduled meetings. All students are welcome to enroll in this class; and this section will have extra support from the Lanzamientoinitiative.
Section 2336 of PSYCH1A
General Psychology -- : Sep 16 - Dec 13 2024
This is a late start section that has no scheduled meetings.
Section 2542 of PSYCH9
Introduction to Behavioral Sciences Statistics -- : Aug 20 - Dec 12 2024
Section 3082 of PSYCH1A
General Psychology -- : Aug 19 - Oct 13 2024
This is a regular start, short term section that has no scheduled meetings.
Summer 2024
Section 8226 of PSYCH34
The Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination -- : Jun 17 - Jul 28 2024
This section has no scheduled meetings.
Section 8583 of PSYCH1A
General Psychology -- : Jun 18 - Jul 28 2024
This section will meet in person at the day(s), time(s), and location listed. There will be additional course content delivered asynchronously online.
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.A., Cognitive Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder
B.A., Psychology, University of California at Santa Cruz
A little bit about me... I grew up in rural West Virginia with parents who taught psychology and math at a small college. Although I've traveled to the other side of the country I still prefer to live close to lots of trees.
As an undergrad at UC Santa Cruz I discovered cognitive psychology and developed a fascination with using experiments to understand invisible processes like memory, learning, and language. Thanks to a great experience working in Dr. Jean Fox Tree's lab I decided to go to graduate school at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I studied learning and memory and learned about computational modeling. After graduating I went to work for a small business owned by one of my professors. This company developed new applications for education and assessment - things like automated essay grading, and writing tutors, and training systems for the Army. After the company was sold to Pearson Education (yea, the company that sells expensive textbooks) I left and started my own very tiny business. Along the way I've also done user experience research and statistical consulting.
I've always loved to teach psychology and have been teaching part-time since I was a graduate student. I'm especially excited to share what I know about cognitive psych (and cognitive science), research methods, and statistics with my students at SRJC.
Selected Publications
LaVoie, N., Parker, J., Legree, P. J., Ardison, S., & Kilcullen, R. N. (2019). Using Latent Semantic Analysis to score short answer constructed responses: Automated scoring of the Consequences Test, Educational and Psychological Measurement.
LaVoie, N., Lee, Y. -C., Allison, A., & Parker, J. (2018). A new approach for assessing and training drivers’ speed management. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 111, 266-270.
LaVoie, N., Parker, J., Legree, P. J., Ardison, S., & Kilcullen, R. N. (2017). Automated scoring of the consequences test using Latent Semantic Analysis. Poster presented at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orland, FL, April 27-29, 2017.
LaVoie, N., Lee, Y.-C., & Parker, J. (2016). Preliminary research developing a theory of cell phone distraction and social relationships. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 86, 155-160.
LaVoie, N., & Cianciolo, A. T. (2014). Advanced assessment to accelerate diagnostic skill acquisition. Invited presentation for the Academy for Scholarship in Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, May 20, 2014.
LaVoie, N. (2010). Driving wisdom: Improving risk assessment in young drivers. Paper presented at the Lifesavers Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-13, 2010.
LaVoie, N., Streeter, L., Lochbaum, K., Wroblewski, D., Boyce, L. A., Krupnick, C., & Psotka, J. (2010). Automating expertise in collaborative learning environments. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 14(4), 97-119.
LaVoie, N., Foltz, P., Rosenstein, M., Oberbreckling, R., Chatham, R., & Psotka, J. (2008). Automated support for AARs: Exploiting communication to assess team performance. Paper presented at I/ITSEC, Orlando, FL, December 1-4, 2008.
LaVoie, N., Chun, C., Boyce, L., Lochbaum, K., Streeter, L., Psotka, J., & Krupnick, C. (2005). Developing critical thinking skills in military leaders using on-line collaborative simulations. Paper presented at the Distance Learning Coordinating Committee Conference, Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA, March 22-23, 2005.
LaVoie, N., Lochbaum, K., Krupnick, C., Psotka, J., & Streeter, L. (2004). We do the monitoring so you don’t have to: Experiences with online discussion groups at the U.S. Army War College. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, FL, November 12-14.
LaVoie, N., Psotka, J., Lochbaum, K., & Krupnick, C. (2004). Automated tools for distance learning. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Learning Technologies, Orlando, FL, February 18–20.
LaVoie, N., Bourne, L. E., Jr., & Healy, A. F. (2002). Memory seeding: Representations underlying quantitative
estimation. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 28, 1137-1153.