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Kendon Smith Lecture Series


   

Schedules from Previous Years

Year Topic Presenters
1984 First Kendon Smith Lectures Charles Brainerd, University of Alberta
Sara Shettleworth, University of Toronto
1985 Development and Higher Order Processes in the Primate Brain Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine "Neurobiology of Cognition" "Cortical Catecholamines and Age-Related Memory Loss in Primates"

Pasko Rakic, Yale University School of Medicine "Mechanisms of Development in the Rhesus Monkey Visual System" "Principles of Cell Migration"

Michael Gazzaniga, Cornell University

Irving Diamond, Duke University

James Davis, Duke University

Ron Oppenheim, Bowman Gray School of Medicine

1986 The Nature of Consciousness Endel Tulving, University of Toronto

Mortimer Mishkin, National Institute of Mental Health

William Lycan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Herb Crovitz, Duke University

1987 Depression: Etiology and Treatment David Kupfer, Chairman & Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Director of Research, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic "Recurrent Affective Disorders - What Do We Know?" "Aspects of Psychobiology in Depression"

Elliott Gershon, Chief, Clinical Nuerogenetics Branch, National Institute of Mental Health; Director, Office of Science, and Senior Science Advisor, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration "Genetics and Biology of Major Affective Disorders" "The Dilemma of Genetic Determinations in Unwanted Human Behavior"

A. John Rush, Betty Jo Hay Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Mental Health Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas "Relationship Between Biological and Bsychological Abnormalities in Depression" "Learned Versus Autonomous Depression: A Valid Distinction?"

John Greenwood, Department of Philosophy, UNCG "The Dimensions of Depression"

1988 The Concept of Responsibility: Psychological & Legal Issues Gary B. Melton, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of Psychology & Law, and Director of the Law/Psychology Program, University of Nebraska at Lincoln "Responsibility in Childhood and Adolescence: A Post-Gault Look at the Defense of Infancy"

Seymour Halleck, Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "The Concept of Responsibility in Medicine"

Kelly G. Shaver, Professor of Psychology, College of William & Mary "Negligence, Responsibility and Blame: A Psychological Perspective"

Richard Bonnie, John S. Brattle Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, University of Virginia "Concepts of Responsibility in the Criminal Law"

Terrance C. McConnell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UNCG "Some Remakrs About Responsibility: A Philosophical Perspective"

1989 Perspectives on the Development of Motor Behavior J. A. Scott Kelso, Creech Chair in Science, Center for Complex Systems and Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University "Dynamic Patterns: A Language for Behavior" "Implications of Dynamic Pattern Theory for Learning and Development"

Esther Thelen, Department of Psychology, Indiana University "Self-Organization and the Acquisition of Skill" "Dynamical Systems in Movement and Development"

Ronald Oppenheim, Program in Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Department of Anatomy, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University "The Neuroembryological Development of Spinal Motor Systems" "Conceptual Issues in the Ontogeny of MotorActivity: Past and Present"

John Fentress, Department of Psychology and Biology, Dalhousie University "Developmental Processes in Movement: How Do We Evaluate Them?" "Towards an Understanding of Generalization Networks in Behavioral Development"

1990 Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory Mark R. Rosenzweig, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkley "Neural Mechanisms of Learing and Memory"

Paul L. Gold, Department of Psychology, Life Science Laboratories, University of Virginia "Regulation of Memory Storage Processing by Glucose Levels in Rodents and Humans"

Robert W. Dykes, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Neurologiques, Universite de Montreal "Acetylcholine and Neuronal Plasticity: A Cellular Mechanism for Memory Storage"

1991 The Psychology of Literacy Michael I. Posner, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon "Lexical Access: From Functional Anatomy to Cogntive Development"

James W. Stigler, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles "Cross-Cultural Studies of Mathematics Learning: Why American Children Lag"

Daniel P. Keating, Department of Instruction and Special Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education "Developing a Literate Habit of Mind"

1992 Emergence of Basic Language Processes in Young Infants Jason Birnholz, Diagnostic Ultrasound Consultants, Oak Brook, Illinois "Preparation for Language?"

Patricia K. Kuhl, Virginia Merill Bloedel Scholar, Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington "Infants' Perception of Speech: A Window on the Ontogeny and Phlogeny of Human Language"

John L. Locke, Director and Senior Research Scientist, Neurolinguistics Laboratory, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Massachusetts General Hospital "The Creation of Linguistic Capacity: Evolution in the Species, Development in the Child"

1993 Human Aggression: Research Addresses Social Problems Robert B. Cairns, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Stepping Stones from Aggression to Violence"

Leonard D. Eron, Research Scientist and Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan; Research Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Chicago "How Children Learn to be Criminals"

Mary P. Koss, Profssor of Family and Community, Pschiatry and Psychology, University of Arizona "Victimization by Sexual Violence"

1994 No lectures held this year  
1995 Development of Behavior and the Nervous System Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology and Head, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge "Sense and Sensibility in Psychobiology"

Lincoln Gray, Professor and Director of Research, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Texas Medical School "Effects of Early Chilhood Deficits on Stereo Hearing"

Richard M. Lerner, Director, Institute for Children, Youth and Families "Addressing the Contemporary Crisis of America's Diverse Children and Youth: Using Gilbert Gottlieb's Developmental Systems Model to Integrate Research and Intervention Promoting Positive Youth Development"

1996 Emotion in Typical and Atypical Development Ross Thompson, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska "The Lessons of Early Relationships"

Nancy Eisenberg, Regents' Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University "Emotion, Regulation, and Social Functioning"

Jude Cassidy, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland "Children's Contributions to Creating Their Own Environments: The Role of Self-feelings"

Pamela Cole, Professor, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University Roundtable Discussion

1997 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Theoretical Examination Russel A. Barkley, Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Virginia I. Douglas, Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University

Herbert C. Quay, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Miami

C. Keith Conners, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center

TOPICS: Theory overview & discussion of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and social deficits Discussion of how theory accounts for developmental course & comorbidity Implications for clinical asessment & treatment

1998 The Aging Mind: Theoretical Issues in Aging and Cognition Dr. Lynn Hasher, Professor, Department of Psychology, Duke University
Inhibitory Control Deficits: Cognitive Consequences

Dr. Timothy Salthouse, Regents Professor, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Structure and Process in Cognitive Aging

Dr. David Balota, Professor, Department of Psychology, Washington University
Attention and Memory in Alzheimer's Disease

Dr. Fergus I. M. Craik, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Prospective Memory and Aging: Some Recent Studies

1999 Stereotyping and Prejudice: Barriers and Breakthroughs Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji, Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University
The Roots of Prejudice

Dr. Galen V. Bodenhausen, Professor, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Unique Individual or Interchangeable Group Member? Determinants of Stereotyping in Social Perception

Dr. Monica R. Biernat, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas
The Role of American Values in Supporting and Thwarting Outgroup Prejudice

Dr. Patricia G. Devine, Professor, Department of Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison
Acceptance or Backlash? Responses to Normative Pressure Discouraging Prejudice

2000 Current Perspectives on Children’s Emerging Knowledge of Mind and Reality Dr. John Flavell, Professor, Department of Psychology Stanford University
Development of intuitions about mental experiences

Dr. Jacqueline Woolley, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
The development of beliefs about mental-physical causality in imagination, magic, and religion

Dr. Judy Dunn, Professor, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
Individual differences in understanding mind and emotion: Significance, antecedents, sequelae

Dr. Alison Gopnik, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Roundtable Discussion

2001 Vulnerability to Mental Illness: Lessons from Experimental and Developmental Psychopathology Dr. Lyn Y. Abramson, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Cognitive vulnerability and invulnerability to depression: Theory, evidence, and implications for prevention Why are some people vulnerable to depression whereas others never seem to become depressed?

Dr. Mark F. Lenzenweger, State University of New York at Binghamton. Explorations in schizotypy: Mapping an alternative expression of schizophrenia liability.

Dr. Terrie E. Moffitt, Kings College (London) & University of Wisconsin-Madison. Conduct problems, juvenile delinquency, and violent crime: Following 1000 young people from birth to adulthood.

Dr. Don C. Fowles, University of Iowa, Roundtable Discusstant.

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The Self as an Organizing Construct in Psychological Science

Dr. Mark R. Leary, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University
Facilitator and Discussant

Dr. Carol S. Dweck, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Self-Systems: Their Impact on Achievement, Self-Esteem, and Depression

Dr. Roy F. Baumeister, Professor, Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve
The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Social Life, and the Self

Dr. Walter Mischel, Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University
Attention Control in the Service of the Agentic Self

Dr. Hazel R. Markus, Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University
Sociocultural Diversit in the Construction of Action

2003 Bridging Research to Policy and Practice in Early Childhood Mental Health Dr. Norm Anderson
CEO, American Psychological Association and UNCG Alumnus
Role of APA in the Translation of Research to Practice and Public Policy

Dr. Jane Knitzer
Deputy Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Research, Policy and Practice Perspectives on Early Childhood Mental Health: Facing the Challenge

Dr. Sharon Landesman Ramey
Susan Mayer Professor in Child and Family Studies and the Founding Director, along with Craig Ramey, of the Center on Health and Education
Promoting Young Children's Success in School and Life

Dr. Barbara Friesen
Director of the Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
Families, Early Childhood and Evidence Based Practice: How Does it all Come Together?

2004

Conscious Control of Cognition and Behavior: A Science of Freedom and Will?

Dr. John Bargh
Yale University
The Nonconscious Operation of Working Memory Structures


Dr. Jonathan Cohen
Princeton University
The Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control

Dr. Larry Jacoby
Washington University
Modes of Cognitive Control: Toward Rehabilitating the Memory Performance of Older Adults

Dr. Gordon Logan
Vanderbilt University
The Homunculus and the Thought Pump: An Exploration of the Cognitive Origins of Causal Agency

2005 Innovative Approaches to the Study of Change and Development Dr. Judith D. Singer
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Longitudinal Research: Current Status and Future Prospects

Dr. John R. Nesselroade
University of Virginia
Intra-individual Variability Perspectives on Studying Change

Dr. Kenneth A. Bollen
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
On the Origins of Latent Curve Models

Dr. John J. McArdle
University of Southern California
Recent Developments in Latent Growth Curve Modeling

2006 Parental Influences and Gene by Environment Interactions in Psychological Development Michael Meaney
McGill University
Programming Individual Differences in Emotion and Reproductive Strategies Through Variations in Maternal Care

Alison Fleming
University of Toronto
Mothering begets Mothering: Is the Rat Model a Useful One?

Katherine Wynne-Edwards
Queens University
Becoming "Daddy": Hormonal and Social Cues That Influence the Other Parent

Marc Bornstein
National Institutes of Health/NICHD
Methodological, Cross-Cultural, and Theoretical Issues Contemporary Parenting Studies