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Acacia Overono

Faculty Member

Dr. Acacia Overono

Biography

Acacia is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Utah Valley University. Her research focuses on how multimodality and retrieval influence the way we learn and remember information. Her research and teaching mutually inform each other, with creative and evidence-based practices in her classroom and with research in collaboration with students in her lab. She is also the current chair of the Psychology & Counseling department.

Education

PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2019

Major: Cognitive Psychology

MS, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2015

Major: Cognitive Psychology

BS, University of California, San Diego, 2012

Major: Cognitive Science

Teaching

PSY 3420

Cognitive Psychology WE, Fall 2024

PSY 3425

Cognitive Psychology Lab, Summer 2024

PSY 3425

Cognitive Psychology Lab, Summer 2024

PSY 3425

Cognitive Psychology Lab, Summer 2024

PSY 488R

Advanced Research Experience in Psychology, Spring 2024

PSY 3425

Cognitive Psychology Lab, Spring 2024

PSY 3425

Cognitive Psychology Lab, Spring 2024

PSY 3420

Cognitive Psychology WE, Spring 2024

PSY 3420

Cognitive Psychology WE, Spring 2024

PSY 475R

Current Topics in Psychology, Spring 2024

PSY 3030

Research Methods for Psychology, Spring 2024

Presentations

Overono, Acacia , UVU's 2024 Symposium on Teaching and Learning_ Research and Practice, "AI Disclosure Statements". (March, 2024)
Clark, Spenser (Presenter & Author), Overono, Acacia (Author Only), Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Bloom's and SOLO_ A Comparison of Educational Taxonomies". (February 16, 2024)
Parmley, Joshua , Overono, Acacia , Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Do Examples of Unethical Conduct Improve or Undermine Ethics Training in Psychology". (February 16, 2024)
Marsh, Corin , Overono, Acacia , Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Drawing on Memory". (February 16, 2024)
Davies, Patrick , Overono, Acacia , Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "The Influence of State Anxiety on Face Identification". (February 16, 2024)
Overono, Acacia , Morris, Trevor , PsychTERMS, "Approaches to Research Question Development in Asynchronous and Face-to-Face Modalities​", PsycLearn, Virtual. (December 13, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Overono, Acacia , Ditta, Annie , (2024) "The Use of AI Disclosure Statements in Teaching_ Developing Skills for Psychologists of the Future" . Teaching of Psychology.
Overono, Acacia , (2024) "Exploring the Impact of Required Justifications in Multiple-Choice Elaboration Questions on Student Experiences and Performance" . Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Overono, Acacia , Ditta, Annie S, (2023) "The Rise of Artificial Intelligence_ A Clarion Call for Higher Education to Redefine Learning and Reimagine Assessment" . College Teaching.
Overono, Acacia , (2023) "The AI-lephant in the Room_ Discussing AI as a way of knowing with UVU Students" .
Overono, Acacia , James, Kelsey K, Storm, Benjamin C, (2021) "A little can go a long way_ giving learners some context can enhance the benefits of pretesting" (Issue: 9, vol. 29). Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1974048
Overoye, Acacia L, Wilson, Margaret , (2020) "Does Gesture Lighten the Load? The Case of Verbal Analogies" (vol. 11). Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.571109

Awards

Higher Education Academy - Fellow

Higher Education Academy - November, 2022

Higher Education Academy - Associate Fellow

Higher Education Academy - April, 2021