Emma Preece

Emma Preece

PhD Student, Sessional Lecturer and Research Assistant

Institute of Health & Society

Contact Details

email: e.preece@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 54 2158

BSc (Hons) Psychology First Class, University of Worcester, 2007.

Teaching & Research

Teaching

·         General psychology
·         Cognitive psychology
·         Research methods
·         Psycholinguistics

Research Interests

·         Age of acquisition effects
·         Word frequency effects
·         Cognitive psychology
·         Psycholinguistics
·         Quantitative methodsProfessional Interests

My academic interests are eclectic but primarily fall within general cognitive psychology, age of acquisition, psycholinguistics, connectionism, cognitive development, statistics, research methods and the history of psychology.

 

Professional Experience

I am currently studying towards my PhD in psychology while working as a sessional lecturer and research assistant. I have contributed to funded research in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, health psychology and clinical psychology.

Publications

Preece, E.L. (in-press). Psychology Express: Biological Psychology. London: Prentice Hall.

Publications as Contributor:
I provided multiple choice questions, essay questions, extended questions and concept maps for the following texts:
· Upton, P.U. and Upton, D.U. (Eds.). (2011). Test Yourself: Cognitive Psychology. London: Learning Matters.
· Upton, P.U. and Upton, D.U. (Eds.). (2011). Test Yourself: Biological Psychology. London: Learning Matters.

Conferences:
· Catling, J., & Preece, E. (2010, July). Pathways to Age of Acquisition: The effects of Filler Words on AoA effects in Word Naming. Paper presented at the Experimental Psychology Society's Meeting, Manchester, UK.

Electronic Resources:  
I provided the electronic resources for the cognitive psychology, social psychology, biological psychology, developmental psychology and statistics in psychology texts in the Psychology Express series. These resources are available on the Psychology Express website: www.pearsoned.co.uk/psychologyexpress.

External Responsibilities