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Gia Macias

Title:Lecturer
Office:Warde Academic Center
Phone:773-298-3477
Email:gmacias@sxu.edu
Department:Psychology

Biography

, Ph.D., is currently a lecturer at 麻豆视传媒在线入口, specializing in cognitive psychology with a particular focus on attention, learning and memory. Macias earned both her bachelor's degree in psychology and master's degree in psychological sciences from CSU, San Bernardino. She earned her doctorate in cognitive psychology and a certificate in psychological statistics from Purdue University in 2024.  

Macias' research interests include memory and attentional processes. Her dissertation examined how interruptions with related content impacted learning while reading. Learning suffered when reading was interrupted by tasks that were related to the text's content. This suggests that interruptions might disrupt mental models about the content in the text, which are developed over time as one reads. This research has implications in educational (e.g., in the classroom; studying for exams), clinical (e.g., therapeutic techniques for ADD), and workplace settings (e.g., medication administration; air-traffic control; and human-computer interaction).  

Previous projects have also examined the effects that state and trait anxiety have on components of attention, such as executive control and alerting and recognition memory performance for emotional versus neutral words using modified Flanker and Stroop tasks. Furthermore, she has conducted research on how event boundaries affect executive control using an AX-CPT task.

Education

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology 

Purdue University 

M.A. in Psychological Sciences and B.A. in Psychology 

California State University, San Bernardino 

Areas of Specialization

  • Interruption effects on learning from text
  • Trait, state, and math anxiety鈥檚 effects on attention and memory

Certification/Licensure

  • Certificate of  
  • Certificate for a Faculty Fellowship entitled: Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation  

Selected Honors/Awards

  • Psychonomic Society: Graduate Conference Award (2021) 
  • Office of Student Research: Summer Research Grant (2016) 

Courses Taught

  • PSY-101: Introduction to Psychology 
  • PSY-315: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  • PSY-390: Research Capstone

Presentations/Publications/Productions

Manuscripts 

Macias, G. M. (in prep). Interrupting Learning with Related Tasks. 

Macias, G. M., & Schneider, D. W. (in prep). Interrupted Reading with Similar and  

Dissimilar Information.  

Schneider, D. W., & Macias, G. M. (in prep). Alertness and Cognitive Control in the  

Simon Task. 

 

Conference talks 

Macias, G. M. (2019). 鈥淭rait Anxiety and its Effects on an Emotional Stroop Task.鈥� Paper presented at the annual Western Psychological Association Convention, Pasadena, Calif. 

 

Conference posters 

Macias, G. M. & Schneider, D. W. (2024). 鈥淩elationship Between Trait Anxiety and Components of Attention.鈥� Paper presented at the annual Midwestern Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, Ill. 

Macias, G. M. & Schneider, D. W. (2022). 鈥淩elationship Between Trait Anxiety and Components of Attention.鈥� Paper presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Mass. 

Macias, G. M. & Schneider, D. W. (2021). 鈥淚nterrupted Reading With Similar and Dissimilar Tasks.鈥� Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual.  

Schneider, D. W. & Macias, G. M. (2020). 鈥淎lertness and Cognitive Control: Interactions in the  

Simon Task.鈥� Paper presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual.  

Macias, G. M., Selim, S., Ruelas鈥揋odinez, B., Radvansky, G., & Reimer, J. (2019). 鈥淭he  

Influence of Event Boundaries on Cognitive Control.鈥� Paper presented at the annual Western Psychological Association Convention, Pasadena, Calif. 

Koshino, H., O鈥橠onnell, K. A., & Macias, G. M. (2018). 鈥淓ffects of Anxiety on the Trial Sequence in Emotional Attention Tasks.鈥� Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, La.  

Macias, G. M. (2018). 鈥淓ffects of Anxiety on an Emotional Stroop Task.鈥� Paper presented at the  

annual Western Psychological Association Convention, Portland, Ore.   

Macias, G. M., Kim, H., & Koshino, H. (2017). 鈥淒oes High State Anxiety Have an Effect on  

Emotional Attention?鈥� Paper presented at the annual Western Psychological Association Convention, Sacramento, Calif. 

Macias, G. M., O鈥橠onnell, K., Kim, H., & Koshino, H. (2017). 鈥淚nteractions Between Anxiety  

and Emotional Attention.鈥� Paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.  

Macias, G. M. (2016). 鈥淐onflicting Motivation: Understanding Latino鈥檚 Responses to In鈥揋roup  

Member鈥檚 Claims of Discrimination.鈥� Paper presented at the annual Meeting of the Minds, San Bernardino, Calif.

 

Professional media contributions 

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, Spark Society 

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