Department of Psychology: Robert Sorrells

Dr. Robert Sorrells Ph.D. (1997). The University of Georgia M.A. (1993). Western Carolina University B.A. (1990). The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Office: 448 Psychology Building Phone: (509) 963-2362 Email: sorrells@cwu.edu

Courses Typically Taught at CWU:

• Introductory Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Sensation and Perception

Research Interests:

• Cognitive psychology
• Learning from texts
• Connectionism

Selected Publications:

Britton, B.K., Schaefer, P., Bryan, M., Silverman, S., & Sorrells, R. (2001). Thinking about bodies of knowledge: Tests of a model for predicting thoughts. In Sandars, T., Schilperoord, J, & Spooren (eds.) Text Representation: Linguistic and Psycholinguistic Aspects. Human Cognitive Processing Series Vol. 8. John Benjamins Publishing Company. Amsterdam / Philadelphia.

Britton, B.K. & Sorrells, R.C. (1998). Thinking about knowledge learned from experience and instruction: Two tests of a connectionist model. Discourse Processes, Vol 25, 131-179.

Sorrells, R. C. & Britton, B.K. (1998). What is the point? Tests of a quick and clean method for improving instructional texts. In C.R. Hynde Learning from text across conceptual domains. Erlbaum.

Sorrells, R.C. & Britton, B.K. (1997). An improved measure of reading skill: The cognitive structure test. ONR Technical Report.

Britton, B.K., Schneider, M., Colomb, G., Sorrells, R. & Stimson, M. (1996) Improving instructional texts: Tests of two revision methods. National Reading and Research Lab Tech Report.