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Dr. Acacia Overono

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Biography

Acacia is an Assistant 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.

Education

Ph D, 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 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

Marsh, Corin , Overono, Acacia , Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Drawing on Memory". (February 16, 2024)

Clark, Spenser , Overono, Acacia , Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, "The Impact of Requiring Answer Explanations on Multiple-Choice Test Performance and Judgements of Learning", The Psychonomic Society, San Fransciso. (November 17, 2023)

Maxwell, David (Presenter & Author), Christensen, Blake , Overono, Acacia L, Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, "Aphantasia, Theory of Mind, and Visual Perspective Taking", Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA. (April 27, 2023)

Christensen, Blake (Presenter & Author), Maxwell, David , Overono, Acacia , Western Psychological Association Annual Convention, "Aphantasia: Spatial, Visual, and Episodic Memory", Western Psychological Association, Riverside, CA. (April 27, 2023)

David, Maxwell , Christensen, Blake , Overono, Acacia , SCULPT Showcase, "Aphantasia, Theory of Mind, and Visual Perspective Taking", Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team, Orem, Utah. (April 4, 2023)

Davies, Patrick , Overono, Acacia L, SCULPT Showcase, "The Influence of State Anxiety on Face Identification ", UVU Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Orem, UT. (April 4, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

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 , "Exploring the Impact of Required Justifications in Multiple-Choice Elaboration Questions on Student Experiences and Performance" . Teaching of Psychology.

Overono, Acacia , (2023) "The AI-lephant in the Room_ Discussing AI as a way of knowing with UVU Students" .

Overono, Acacia , (2022) "Knowledge" . Self-Published.

Spurgin, Caroline , Overono, Acacia , Stoddart, Trish , (2020) "Recruiting and Preparing STEM Teachers for High Needs Schools_ A Community College-University of California" .

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

Sensation and Perception WE, Fall 2019

Hill, Jessi C, Overono, Acacia L, Taylor, James O, Roots of Humanity Talk Series, "How we see art is how we see the world", , Roots of Humanity Foundation, Lehi, UT. (March 9, 2023)

Overoye, Acacia L, PsychTERMS, "Assessment Methods for Teaching Methods_ Multiple-Choice Testing With Elaboration", , PsycLearn, Virtual. (December 8, 2022)

Whiting, Tyler (Presenter & Author), Overono, Acacia , Annual Western Psychological Association Convention, "The influence of co-speech gestures on truthiness", , Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR. (April, 2022)

Overono, Acacia , Roots of Knowledge Talk Series, "Watering the roots_ How understanding memory informs education", , Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. (April, 2022)

Marra, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Hunter, Belen (Presenter & Author), Overono, Acacia , SCULPT Showcase, "Color and perceived anger", , UVU Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Orem, UT. (April, 2022)

Whiting, Tyler (Presenter & Author), Overono, Acacia , SCULPT Showcase, "Student reactions to written justification testing", , UVU Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Orem, UT. (April, 2022)

Parker, Logan (Presenter & Author), Overoye, Acacia L (Author Only), National Conference on Undergraduate Research 2021, "Gestural Attention on the Effectiveness of Gestural Misinformation", , Council on Undergraduate Research, Virtual Meeting. (April, 2021)

Parkert, Logan (Presenter & Author), Ortiz, Vanitzia , Overono, Acacia , SCULPT Showcase, "Static face and voice pairing interactions_ Implications of face-voice typicality on phrase content recall", , UVU Scholarly & Creative Undergraduate Learning Partnership Team (SCULPT), Orem, Utah. (April, 2021)

Overoye, Acacia L (Presenter & Author), Ditta, Annie S (Presenter & Author), Storm, Benjamin C (Author Only), Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, "Hands off!: How physical interaction affects creative thinking", , Psychonomic Society, Virtual. (November 20, 2020)

Overono, Acacia , Hill, Jessi , Kopp, Kristopher , (2020) "Introduction to Cognitive Psychology" . Self-Published.

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

Overoye, Acacia L, C, Benjamin Storm, (2018) "Remembering what was said and done_ The activation and facilitation of memory for gesture as a consequence of retrieval" (Issue: 3, vol. 45). Journal of Experimental Psychology_ Learning, Memory, and Cognition. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000591

Overoye, Acacia , Storm, Benjamin C, (2015) "Harnessing the power of uncertainty to enhance learning" (Issue: 2, vol. 1). Translational Issues in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000022