MARK R. SEELY Curriculum Vitae127 South Park Avenue Voice: (219) 866-6294
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E-mail: marks@saintjoe.eduEDUCATION
Ph.D., Psychology, 1996
University of California, DavisM.A., Psychology, 1993
University of California, DavisB.S., Developmental Psychology, summa cum laude, 1991
Eastern Washington University
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of Psychology, Saint Joseph's College, Indiana, 2003 - present
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Saint Joseph's College, Indiana, 1997 - 2002
Cognitive Psychology
Experimental Methods
Freshman Seminar
Humanity in the Universe II
Human Learning and Memory
Human Sexuality
Introductory Psychology
Physiological Psychology
Social Science Seminar
Statistics
Statistics Lab (SPSS)
Systems and Theories of Psychology
The Modern World
Lecturer, California State University,
Sacramento, 1995 - 1997Cognitive Psychology
Contemporary Issues in Psychology
Foundations of Psychological Research
Introductory Psychology
Lecturer, University of California, Davis, 1995 - 1996
Cognitive Psychology
Human Learning and Memory
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, 1991-1995
Assisted in the teaching of the following Psychology courses:
Advanced Research Design
Cognitive Psychology
Genius Creativity and Leadership
Human Learning and Memory
Language and Cognition
Perception
Psychology of Consciousness
Research Methods in Psychology
Social Psychology
Statistical Inference
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCEChair of the Saint Joseph's College Faculty Assembly
2003 - 2004
Student Life Committee, Saint Joseph's College
2001 - 2002 (Chair)
2002 - 2003
2005 - present
Admissions Committee, Saint Joseph’s College
1999Human Subjects Review Board, Saint Joseph's College
1998-1999 ChairSupervisor, Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, University of California, Davis
1991-1996
SJC ADVISING EXPERIENCEStudent Association Faculty Advisor
1999-2000
2002-2003
Karate Club Faculty Avisor
2002 - 2005
Freshman Advisor
1998-2000
2003
2006 - present
Psychology Club Faculty Advisor
2006 - present
SPECIAL TRAINING
Faculty Development Workshop, Saint Joseph’s College (Summer 1999):
Training geared for the specific demands of Saint Joseph’s Interdisciplinary Core ProgramWeb Page Design Seminar, Saint Joseph’s College (Spring, 1999)Teaching Internship, University of California, Davis:
Introductory Psychobiology (Spring Quarter, 1994)Participated in a year-long Professional Course at The University of California, Davis:The Teaching of Psychology (1993-1994)
AWARDS AND HONORSWho's Who among American Teachers (2003)
Alpha Lambda Delta National Honor Society for Freshman, Honorary Member (2002)
UC Davis Graduate Fellowship (1994)
The Mary Shields Wilson Medallion Award, Eastern Washington University (1991)
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (1990)
Psi Chi National Honor Society in Psychology (1989)
Presidential Scholarship, Eastern Washington University (1989)
Dean's List, Academic Honors: EWU (1989-1991)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONSACA American Counseling Association
ACAA American College Counseling Association
AERA American Educational Research Association
APS American Psychological Society
C-AHEAD Counseling Association for Humanist Education and Development
The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Division 2)
PUBLICATIONS (Academic)
Long, D. L., Oppy, B. J., & Seely, M. R. (1994). Individual differences in the time course of inferential processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 20, 1456-1470.
Seely, M. R., & Long, D. L. (1994). The use of generalized knowledge structures in processing television News items. In H. van Oostendorp & R. A. Zwaan (Eds.), Naturalistic Text Comprehension. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex.
Long, D. L., Seely, M. R., Oppy, B. J., & Golding, J. M. (1996). The role of inferential processing in reading ability. In B. Britton & A. C. Graesser (Eds.), Models of Understanding Text. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Long, D. L., Seely, M. R., & Oppy, B. J. (1996). The availability of causal information during reading. Discourse Processes, 22, 145-170.
Long, D. L., Oppy, B. J., & Seely, M. R. (1997). A "global coherence" view of event comprehension: Inferential processing as question answering. In P. W. van den Broek, P. J. Bauer & T. Bourg (Eds.), Developmental Spans in Event Comprehension and Representation. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Long, D. L., Oppy, B. J., & Seely, M. R. (1997). Individual differences in readers' sentence- and text-level representations. Journal of Memory and Language, 36, 129..
Long, D. L., Seely, M. R., & Oppy, B. J. (1999). The strategic nature of less skilled readers' suppression problems. Discourse Processes, 27(3), 281-302.
Seely, M. R. (2003). DNA, intelligent design, and misleading metaphors. Free Inquiry (Summer) 37-39.
Seely, M.R. (in press). Psychological debriefing may not be clinically effective: implications for a humanistic approach to trauma intervention. Journal of Humanistic Counseling Education and Development.
Seely, M. R. (submitted). Evidence for the negative influence of Christian values on utilitarian-based moral decisions.
PUBLICATIONS (Nonacademic)
Seely, M. R. Freedom, Purpose, and Personal Meaning (1999) Plymouth, VT: Five Corners Publications, Ltd.
Seely, M. R. (2002). My animal guide. Snowy Egret, 65 (1), 16-20.
PRESENTATIONSLong, D. L., Steinke, P., Seely, M. R., & Oppy, B. J. (January, 1992). Individual differences in knowledge-based inference generation. Paper presented at the Annual Winter Text Conference.
Jackson, Wyoming.Seely, M. R., & Long, D. L., (May, 1992). The use of generalized knowledge structures in processing television news. Paper presented at the Annual meeting of the International Association for the Empirical Study of Literature. Memphis, Tennessee.
Seely, M. R., & Long, D. L., (June, 1992). Recognition memory and the structure of television news. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Psychology Department Research Colloquium. University of California, Davis.
Long, D. L., Oppy, B. J., & Seely, M. R. (January, 1993). Individual differences in the time course of integration and elaboration. Paper presented at the Annual Winter Text Conference. Jackson, Wyoming.
Long, D. L., Seely, M. R., & Oppy, B. J. (January, 1994). Knowledge effects and reading time for naturalistic discourse. Paper presented at the Annual Winter Text Conference. Jackson, Wyoming.
Long, D. L., Seely, M. R., & Oppy, B. J. (November, 1996). A response competition account of less-skilled readers' failure to suppress irrelevant information. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, Illinois.
Seely, M. R., & Long, D. L. (November, 1996). Knowledge effects in recognition for text. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, Illinois.