WILLIAM P. NEEDHAM, PhD.
Associate Professor of Psychology

Tel: (914) 251-6653

Fax:
(914) 251-6635

Office:
Nat. Sci. 1024

School of Natural and Social Sciences
Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577

wneedham@purvid.ns.purchase.edu
(students) 
wneedham@brick.purchase.edu

 

Education:
B.S. Chemistry, 1968, Boston College
M.L.S., 1974, URI
M.A., 1982, and Ph.D., 1987, Experimental Psychology, Northeastern University.

Courses taught: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language, Physiological Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Experimental Psychology, Statistics, Psychology Junior Seminar, Introduction to Psychology

Areas of Expertise: Cognitive psychology; language processing; reasoning; memory.

Research Interests: Information structure in language production and comprehension; differences between skilled and unskilled readers in text processing; memory for text and discourse; transfer in reasoning and problem solving.

Selected Publications


Back to Psychology Faculty