Emma Whitt

Contact

• workRoom B17 Psychology
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 15358
• Emma.Whitt@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

I am an associate professor in the School of Psychology and the school's Senior Tutor.

I run the Psychology Learning and Teaching Enhancement (PLATE) group. This group meets regularly and aims to improve learning and teaching within the School.

I am a Senior Fellow of the HEA.

Teaching Summary

One of my main teaching responsibilities is the academic development of first-year students. This is mainly delivered through workshops (e.g., how to learn, research skills, writing skills, and… read more

Recent Publications

• ROBINSON, JASPER, JONES, PETER M. and WHITT, EMMA J., 2022. Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats' gustatory sensory preconditioning QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 75(7), 1215-1227
• HOLDEN, LUKE J., WHITT, EMMA J. and HASELGROVE, MARK, 2021. Resilient allocentric reorientation following transfer from the inside to the outside of an arena QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 74(12), 2124-2136
• BARNARD, MEGAN, WHITT, EMMA and MCDONALD, STEPHANIE, 2021. Learning objectives and their effects on learning and assessment preparation: insights from an undergraduate psychology course ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. 46(5), 673-684
• EMMA WHITT and MARK HASELGROVE, 2020. What can animal learning tell us about education?. In: TINA BYROM, ed., Meeting the Teaching and Learning Challenges in 21st Century Higher Education: Universal Design Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 120-131

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One of my main teaching responsibilities is the academic development of first-year students. This is mainly delivered through workshops (e.g., how to learn, research skills, writing skills, and software skills). I am interested in applying research from Psychology to learning at university (e.g., the testing effect, the spacing effect).

Modules

Practical methods and workshops in Psychology (Workshops)

Biological Psychology (Neuroanatomy and Learning)

Neuroscience and Behaviour

Mechanisms of Learning and Psychopathology

Research project. Projects this year are investigating learning techniques

Textbook

Whitt, E., McDonald, S., Doherty, A., Bailey, K. (2023). The Psychology Project Manual. Oxford University Press.

• ROBINSON, JASPER, JONES, PETER M. and WHITT, EMMA J., 2022. Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats' gustatory sensory preconditioning QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 75(7), 1215-1227
• HOLDEN, LUKE J., WHITT, EMMA J. and HASELGROVE, MARK, 2021. Resilient allocentric reorientation following transfer from the inside to the outside of an arena QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. 74(12), 2124-2136
• BARNARD, MEGAN, WHITT, EMMA and MCDONALD, STEPHANIE, 2021. Learning objectives and their effects on learning and assessment preparation: insights from an undergraduate psychology course ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. 46(5), 673-684
• EMMA WHITT and MARK HASELGROVE, 2020. What can animal learning tell us about education?. In: TINA BYROM, ed., Meeting the Teaching and Learning Challenges in 21st Century Higher Education: Universal Design Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 120-131
• MUSIAT P, POTTERTON R, GORDON G, SPENCER L, ZEILER M, WALDHERR K, KUSO S, NITSCH M, ADAMCIK T, WAGNER G, KARWAUTZ A, EBERT DD, DODD A, DOOLEY B, HARRISON A, WHITT E, HASELGROVE M, SHARPE H, SMITH J, TRESSLER R, TROOP N, VINYARD C, GÖRLICH D, BEECHAM J, BONIN E, JACOBI C and SCHMIDT U, 2019. Web-based indicated prevention of common mental disorders in university students in four European countries - Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Internet interventions. 16, 35-42
• CARMEN TOMAS, EMMA WHITT, ROSA LAVELLE-HILL and KATIE SEVERN, 2019. Modeling Holistic Marks With Analytic Rubrics Frontiers in Education: Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement. 4, 89
• ROBINSON, JASPER, WHITT, EMMA J and JONES, PETER M, 2017. Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression. Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition. 43(2), 159-170
• ROBINSON, J. and WHITT, E., 2013. Improved spontaneous object recognition following spaced preexposure trials: evidence for an associative account of recognition memory Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 39(2), 174-179
• WHITT, E., HASELGROVE, M. and ROBINSON, J., 2012. Indirect object recognition: evidence for associative processes in recognition memory Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes. 38(1), 74-83
• JONES, P.M., WHITT, E.J. and ROBINSON, J., 2012. Excitotoxic perirhinal cortex lesions leave stimulus-specific habituation of suppression to lights intact Behavioural Brain Research. 229(2), 365-371
• ROBINSON, J., WHITT, E.J., HORSLEY, R.R. and JONES, P.M., 2010. Familiarity-based stimulus generalization of conditioned suppression in rats is dependent on the perirhinal cortex Behavioral Neuroscience. 124(5), 587-599
• WHITT, E, DOUGLAS, M, OSTHAUS, B and HOCKING, I, Domestic cats (Felis catus) do not show causal understanding in a string-pulling task Animal cognition. 12(5), 739-743