Marsha C. Lovett
Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Email: lovett@cmu.edu
Office: (412) 268-3499
Home: (412) 362-5259
Fax: (412) 268-2844
Personal
Born July 10, 1967 in Manchester, CT.
Education
- Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, April 1994
- Cognitive Psychology
Dissertation: History of experience and current
context in problem solving.
Advisor: John R. Anderson, Ph.D.
- M.S. Carnegie Mellon University, 1991
- Cognitive Psychology
- B.A. Princeton University, 1989
- Cognitive Science, Summa Cum Laude
Academic Honors
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 1989-1992.
- Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, 1989.
- George A. Miller Prize for outstanding student in Cognitive Science, 1989.
- George B. Wood Prize for highest academic record in junior year, 1988.
Research Interests
Learning and problem solving;
Computational models of cognition;
Instruction of strategies;
Decision making;
Examples and explanations in learning;
Acquisition and transfer of complex skills;
Implicit memory.
Teaching Interests
Cognitive psychology;
Computational modeling;
Problem solving and reasoning;
Learning and memory;
Research methodology;
Decision making;
Artificial intelligence;
Statistics for the social sciences.
Computational Modeling Experience
- Computational modeling within the frameworks of ACT-R, PDP, and Soar.
- Collaborative work on a machine learning system for analogical problem solving.
- Design and implementation of a student model in an intelligent tutor for LISP.
Publications
Lovett, M. C. & Anderson, J. R. (1994). Effects of solving related
proofs on memory and transfer in geometry problem solving.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20,
366-378.
Lovett, M. C. (1992). Learning by problem solving versus by examples:
The benefits of generating and receiving information. Proceedings of
the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
956-961). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Hickman, A. K. & Lovett, M. C. (1991). Partial match and search control via
internal analogy. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the
Cognitive Science Society (pp. 744-748). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Reiser, B. J., Kimberg, D. Y., Lovett, M. C., & Ranney, M. (1992).
Knowledge representation and explanation in GIL, an intelligent tutor
for programming. In J. Larkin & R. Chabay (Eds.),
Computer Assisted Instruction and Intelligent Tutoring Systems:
Shared Goals and Complementary Approaches (pp. 111-149). Hillsdale,
New Jersey: Erlbaum.
Reiser, B. J., Ranney, M., Lovett, M. C., & Kimberg, D. Y. (1989).
Facilitating students' reasoning with causal explanations and visual
representations. In D. Bierman, J. Breuker, & J. Sandberg (Eds.),
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence and Education. Springfield, Virginia: IOS.
Submitted Papers
Lovett, M. C. & Anderson, J. R. (1994).
Effects of history of experience
and current context on operator choice.
Manuscript submitted for review.
Lovett, M. C. & Anderson, J. R. (1995). Making heads or tails out of strategy
selection: An analogy to probability matching.
Work In Progress
Lovett, M. C. Probability matching in problem solving: A memory-based explanation.
Lovett, M. C., Reber, P. R., & Squire, L. R. Procedural learning and
the set effect in amnesia.
Lovett, M. C. How choice of problems affects choice of strategy: Educational
implications.
Professional Experience
- Fall 1994-present
- Ad hoc reviewer for JEP:LMC.
- Fall 1993-present
- Ad hoc reviewer for Memory and Cognition.
- Spring 1993
- Teaching Assistant, Research Methods class
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Fall 1992-Spring 1993
- Search Committee for Psychology Department Head
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Fall 1991-Spring 1992
- Visiting Scholar
University of California at Berkeley.
- Spring 1991
- Head Teaching Assistant for Introductory Psychology class
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Fall 1990
- Academic Committee for Humanities and Social Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University.
- Summer 1988-Spring 1989
- Research Assistant, Cognitive Science Laboratory
Princeton University.
Professional Affiliations
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Society
- Cognitive Science Society
- Psychonomic Society
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