Tabitha Payne joined the faculty at Kenyon in 2002. Her teaching interests include courses in cognitive processes. In her research, she seeks to understand individual differences in the ability to apply effortful focus toward remembering, problem solving, and learning. The ability to focus and execute advanced mental operations for memory, reasoning, and learning is dependent on a number of factors that can be defined in terms of task parameters, enduring intellectual ability of the individual, and even reactions to stress.

Areas of Expertise

Cognitive psychology, methods in cognitive psychology

Education

Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. University of Tennessee
B.A Ohio State University

Courses Taught

PSYC 111 Honors Introductory Psychology
PSYC 301 Cognitive Processes
PSYC 402 Research Methods in Cognitive Experimental Psychology