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Sherry L. Serdikoff
Interim Director, Psychological Sciences Program
Email: serdiksl@jmu.edu
Phone: 540-568-7089
Office: Johnston Hall, room 102
Website: http://psychweb.cisat.jmu.edu/serdiksl/LAB/LAB.htm
Education & Professional Qualifications
B.C.B.A.: Board Certified Behavior Analyst
| Post-doctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1993-1994) |
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| Post-doctoral Fellow | National Institute on Drug Abuse (1991-1993) |
| Ph.D. | West Virginia University (1991) |
| M.A. | West Virginia University (1989) |
| B.A. | Temple University (1986) |
Biographical Statement
I have interests in all three branches of behavior analysis; experimental, conceptual, and applied. Over the years I have worked in the following areas: laboratory models of psychopathology (including depression, AD/HD, & drug addiction); behavior principles applied to animal training; behavioral pharmacology; complex stimulus control; and instructional design, performance assessment, & program evaluation in education & industry.
Teaching interests and program affiliations
| Faculty: | Psychological Sciences Undergraduate Psychology |
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| Courses: | Learning (Experimental Analysis of Behavior) Applied Behavior Analysis Research Design and Data Analysis |
Scholarship
As noted on my web page, although most of my research is conducted in a laboratory setting and is more concerned with basic issues than with direct application, the goal is to understand complex forms of behavior as they occur within natural environments. That is, the aim of my research is to uncover general principles of behavior that are applicable across a wide range of species and situations.
Selected Publications:
- Shulleeta, M. M., Serdikoff, S. L., Pitts, E. J., & Catania, A. C.
(2004, May). Examining the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as an animal model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): An analysis of conditioned reinforcement using an observing procedure. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis: International, Boston, MA. - Saville, B. K., Zinn, T. E., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2004, October). Using Interteaching in a Psychological Research Methods Course. Symposium presented at the conference on Best Practices in Teaching Research Methods & Statistics in Psychology, Atlanta, GA
- Pitts, E. J., Poerstel, L. B., Slezak, J. M., Austin, K. T., McWethy, J. A., & Serdikoff, S. L. (2004, October). Examining the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) as an animal model of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)using delay-of-reinforcement gradients. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis, Charlotte, NC.
Professional Service
- Past-President, Southeastern Association for Behavior Analysis (www.seaba.org)
- President and Founder, Virginia Association for Behavior Analysis (www.v-aba.org)
- Program Co-Chair for 2004 & 2005 Conventions, Division 25 of the American Psychological Association (http://www.auburn.edu/~newlamc/apa_div25/index.html)
- Editorial Board, The Behavior Analyst (http://www.abainternational.org/tbajournal/)
- Editorial Board, the Behavior Analyst Today, (http://www.behavior-analyst-online.org/NEWBAT/Frameless%20BAT/index.html)
