Assistant Teaching Professor of Psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education llh5300@psu.edu Office Phone: +1 717 948 6362Bottom FieldsBio Laura Heisick earned a Ph.D. in psychology from the Cognitive and Brain Sciences program at Louisiana State University, and she is an Assistant Teaching Professor at Penn State Harrisburg. Her research interests include human memory processes and face perception from both basic and applied perspectives. Dr. Heisick's work investigates the difficulties and failures of unfamiliar face perception, consequences of forgetting on purpose and by accident, and physiological indices of memory, such as eye movements and pupil dilation. She is currently teaching in the undergraduate psychology program. Research Interests Unfamiliar face perception and matchingSocial aspects of face perceptionProspective person memorySuccesses and failures of memory (i.e. forgetting)Reward processingPhysiological indices of memory (e.g. eye movements and pupil dilation) Education Ph.D. (Louisiana State University) Course Schedule Introduction to General PsychologyIntroduction to General Psychology Introduction to Personality PsychologyIntroduction to Personality Psychology Basic Research Methods in PsychologyBasic Research Methods in Psychology
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