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Peter F. Delaney, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor • Department of Psychology • University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of Psychology
296 Eberhart Building
PO Box 26170
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC  27402-6170

WEB: http://www.uncg.edu/~p_delane/
PHONE: (336) 256-0010
EMAIL: p_delane@uncg.edu
OFFICE:  287 Eberhart

Education and Professional Experience

  • 1990-1994: Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. Cognitive Science, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 1994-1997: Florida State University, M.S. Cognitive and Behavioral Science, Tallahassee, FL

  • 1997-2000: Florida State University, Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Tallahassee, FL

  • 2000-2005: Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

  • 2005-present:  Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Experimental, Theoretical and Scholarly Work

Books

Silvia, P., Delaney, P. F., & Marcovitch, S. M. (in press).  What psychology majors could (and should) be doing: Research experience, writing and professional skills for professional development .  APA Books.

Articles and Chapters

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Goodmon, L. B. (in press).  "Oh, honey, I already forgot that": Strategic control of directed forgetting in older and younger adults.  Psychology & Aging.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Waldum, E. R. (2008).  Intentional forgetting is easier after two "shots" than one.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34, 408-414.

Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L, & Delaney, P. F. (2008).  Rote rehearsal and spacing effects in the free recall of pure and mixed lists.  Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 35-47.

Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2007).  Unexpected costs of high working memory capacity following directed forgetting and context change manipulations.  Memory & Cognition, 35, 1074-1082.

Delaney, P. F. (2006).  Dialectical thought.  In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Development (Vol. 1, pp. 323-324).  Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2005). Encoding strategy changes and spacing in free recall.   Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 120-130.

Knowles, M. E., & Delaney, P. F. (2005). Lasting reductions in illegal moves following increasing their cost:  Evidence from river-crossing problems.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 670-682.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2005).  Directed forgetting in incidental learning and recognition testing:  Support for a two-factor account.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 31, 789-801.

Delaney, P. F., Ericsson, K. A., & Knowles, M. E. (2004).  Immediate and sustained effects of planning in problem solving.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 30, 1219-1234.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. A., & Mahadevan, S. (2004). Uncovering the structure of a memorist's superior "basic" memory capacity.  Cognitive Psychology, 49, 191-237.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Kelley, C. M. (2004).  Self-evaluation as a moderating factor in strategy change in directed forgetting benefits.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11, 131-136.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2003). Can encoding differences explain the benefits of directed forgetting in the list-method paradigm? Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 195-201.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1999). Long-term working memory as an alternative to capacity models of working memory in everyday skilled performance. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.), Models of Working Memory (pp. 257-297). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

Delaney, P. F., Reder, L. M., Staszewski, J. J., & Ritter, F. E. (1998). The power law of practice applies by strategy within task. Psychological Science, 9, 1-7.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Working memory and expert performance. In R. H. Logie & K. J. Gilhooly (Eds.), Working Memory and Thinking (pp. 93-114). Hove, UK: Psychology Press Ltd.

Austin, J., & Delaney, P. F. (1998). Protocol analysis as a tool for behavior analysts. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior*, 15, 41-56.

Delaney, P. F., & Austin, J. (1998). Evidence for a behavioral interpretation of memory: Acquisition and remembering strategies examined. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior*, 15, 75-91.

*:  Denotes a paper whose primary audience was behavior analysts and not cognitive psychologists.

Conference presentations

LeRoux, A., Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2008, Novemberl).  Soft constraints in problem-solving rule breaking: Transfer of "cautiousness" revisited.  Poster to be presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November 13-16.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Goodmon, L. B. (2008, April).  Oh, honey, I already forgot that:  Strategic control of directed forgetting in older and younger adults.  Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 10-13.

Hynes, J. C., & Delaney, P. F. (2008, May).  The midlist primacy effect in spacing designs.  Poster to be presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL, May 22-25.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2007, November).  The zero-sum tradeoff and scallop effects in spacing designs.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Waldum, E. R. (2007, November).  Intentional forgetting is easier after two "shots" than one.  Paper presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Kelley, C. M., Zimmerman, C., Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2007, November).  Does traveling backward in time induce forgetting of the present?  Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L., Delaney, P. F., & Rikers, R. M. J. P. (2007, November).  Encoding strategy and the testing effect in free recall.  Poster presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA, November 15-18.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Verkoeijen, P. P. J. L. (2006, November).  What can spacing studies tell us about the purpose of rehearsal?  Paper presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX, November 16-19.
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, March).  Using rehearse-aloud protocols to understand spacing effects.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD, March .
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, February).  The impact of specific study strategies on spacing effects.  Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Greensboro, NC, February 14.
 
Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2005, November).  Spacing and list-strength effects following instructions to rehearse.  Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Toronto, ON, November 10-13.
 
Knowles, M. E. & Delaney, P. F. (2004, November).  Why some problems are harder:  Analysis of illegal moves.  Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2004, November).  Directed forgetting in recognition testing and incidental learning.  Paper presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN, November 18-21.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2003, November).  Effects of encoding strategies on spacing effects in free recall.  Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 6-9.

Delaney, P. F., & Sahakyan, L. (2003, November).  The role of working memory and context in forgetting.  Poster presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 6-9.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. E. (2003, June).  The spacing effect in unmixed lists:  Effects of encoding strategy.  Poster presented at the 15th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, May 29 - June 1.

Jones, K., & Delaney, P. F. (2003, March).  Directed forgetting of emotion words.  Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 26-29.

Delaney, P. F., & Knowles, M. (2002, November).  Retroactive interference on long-term memory for planned solutions.  Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO, November 21-24.

Sahakyan, L., Delaney, P. F., & Kelley, C. M. (2002, November).  Self-generated feedback and strategy change in directed forgetting benefits.  Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, MO, November 21-24.

Sahakyan, L., & Delaney, P. F. (2001, November). The role of encoding strategies in directed forgetting benefits. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November 15-18.

Delaney, P. F. (2001, April). Forgetting, retroactive interference, and plans in the water jugs task. Paper presented at the 2001 Florida Conference on Cognition, Perception, Sensation, Language and Action, Gainesville, FL, March 31 - April 1.

Delaney, P. F., & Ericsson, K. A. (2000, November). Can novices store plans during problem-solving in long-term working memory? Poster presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, November 13-18.

Delaney, P. F., Ericsson, K. A., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1999, June). Accounts of the memorist Rajan's superior memory performance: Comparing three theoretical proposals. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, Denver, CO, June 3-6.

Feddon, J. S., Delaney, P. F., & Anderson, J. R. (1998, July). ACT-Rajan: An ACT-R Model of an Expert Memorist. Paper presented at 5th Annual ACT Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, July 18-20.

Ericsson, K. A., & Delaney, P. F. (1997, July). Long-term working memory as an alternative to capacity models of working memory in everyday skilled performance. Paper presented at Models of Working Memory, Boulder, CO, July 10-13.

Delaney, P. F. (1997, May). Active behaviors in "storage" of information. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Chicago, IL, May 24-28.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1997, March). The memorist Rajan's memory for digits and other symbols: Extensive practice and/or talent? Paper presented at the 1997 Florida Cognitive Conference, Pensacola, FL, March 14-15.

Ericsson, K. A., Delaney, P. F., Weaver, G. E., & Mahadevan, S. (1996, November). The memorist Rajan's memory for digits and other symbols: Extensive practice and/or great talent? Paper presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November 1-3.

Delaney, P. F., & Austin, J. (1996, May). Deliberate practice and expert performance research. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis, San Francisco, CA, May 24-28.

Delaney, P. F., & Ericsson, K. A. (1996, March). Planning in problem solving: Preliminary results and conclusions. Poster presented at the 1996 Florida Cognitive Conference, Tallahassee, FL, March 22-24.

Invited Lectures

Delaney, P. F. (2007, October).  Automatic and strategic causes of the spacing effect.  Invited Talk, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
 
Delaney, P. F. (2006, July).  Recent developments in the study of expertise.  Invited Talk, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.

 

External Funding, Recognition and Honors

Funded Proposals

1 RO3 AG23823-01    L. Sahakyan (PI)            7/1/04 - 7/1/06
NIH/NIA
Title:  Contextual changes and aging.
This project involves experiments on human memory and aging as applied to memory for medical instructions.  I co-wrote the proposal and co-designed these studies, which were based on pilot data collected in Delaney & Sahakyan (submitted).
Role: co-PI

Editorial Boards

  • Consulting Editor, Memory & Cognition, Editor: B. Ross  - Starting 01/08

Recognition and Honors

  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Teaching Award Nominee, University of Florida, 2002, 2003
  • Psi Chi Teaching Award Nominee, University of Florida, 2001
  • Certificate of Completion, ACT-R Workshop.  Carnegie-Mellon University, 1998.
  • Sigma Xi Fisher Award / First Runner Up.  Competition for published research by graduate students at Florida State University, 1997
  • Outstanding Instructor Award, Florida State University, 1998
  • Phi Eta Sigma Teacher of the Year, Florida State University, 1998
  • Thomas J. Watson Scholar / National Merit Scholar, IBM Corporation, 1990-1994

Service Activities

  • Chair/Coordinator, Cognitive Forum Lecture Series ~ Fall 2002

  • Graduation Marshall ~ August 2002

  • Judge, Graduate Student Forum Paper Competition ~ Spring 2001, Spring 2002

  • Program Chair for the 14th Florida Conference on Cognition, Language, Action, Sensation and Perception (CLASP) at the University of Florida, Gainesville (2001)

  • Cognitive Forum Coordinator ~ Fall, 2002

  • Ad-hoc reviews for Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Memory and Language; Memory; Behavior Research Instruments, Methods and Computers; Memory & Cognition; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Journal of Intelligent Systems; Design Studies; and Cambridge University Press Books

  • External reviewer on NIMH/NIH grants (2004)

  • Chair, UNCG Psychology Web Committee, and web designer for the department (2005-present)

  • Chair, UNCG Psychology Colloquium Committee (2006-present)

  • Member, UNCG Psychology Clinical Search Committee (2006)

  • Member, UNCG University Graduate Studies Committee and Curriculum Subcommittee (2008-present)

 

 

Students Graduated

  • Martin E. Knowles, M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida [post-degree job: Eli Lilly, Inc.]
  • Khanh Nghiem, M.S., University of Florida [now counseling doctoral student at U Florida]
  • Keith Alfano, Ph.D., University of Florida [now User Experience Researcher at Microsoft, Inc.]

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

  • General Psychology (up to 300 students)

  • Social Psychology (up to 200 students)

  • Cognitive Psychology (up to 110 students)

  • Cognition and Consciousness (Learning & Memory) (up to 50 students)

  • Thinking and Reasoning (up to 50 students)

  • Psychology of Art, Genius and Creativity (up to 150 students)

  • Directed Research, Directed Reading, and Honors Thesis (up to 15 students at once)

Graduate

  • Graduate-Level Protocol Analysis Seminar

  • Graduate-Level Seminar in Human Problem Solving

  • Graduate-Level Seminar in Expert Performance

  • Graduate Teaching Practicum


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