Tammy Marche

  • Professor, Department Head Psychology
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8076
  • tmarche@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

Doctor of Philosophy
  • Experimental Psychology - Memory Development
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Interests

  • Cognitive Development
  • Memory Development across the Lifespan
  • Memory Accuracy (Forgetting) and Memory Distortion (False Memory, Suggestibility)
  • Psychology and Law (Eyewitness memory)
  • Memory and Health (Children's Memory for Pain)

Research Projects

Children's Memory for Pain: Improving Children's Coping via Forgetting of Biased Pain-Related Memory (BSC#: 03-1035)
  • The primary goal of this project is to understand how children remember and forget painful experiences, such as needles, hospital stays, and dental procedures. By understanding their memory for such experiences we will be able to improve treatment and management of pain, which will help children cope more effectively with future painful experiences or events.
Memory Accuracy and Memory Distortion across the Lifespan
  • Study 1: Lexical Decision in Omission Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm
  •               (BSC#02-381)
  • Study 2: Deese-Roediger-McDermott & Serial Position Effects
  • Study 3: Gist-based Predictors of Memory Phenomenolgy
  • Study 4: Memory and the Canadian Test of Cognitive Skills

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Marche, T.A., Howe, M.L., Lane, D.G., Owre, K.P., & Briere, J.L. (2009, in press). Cognitive triage in adult recall. Memory.
  • Rocha, E.M., Marche ,T.A., & von Baeyer, C.L. (2009, in press). Anxiety influences children's memory for procedural pain. Pain Research & Management.
  • Rocha, E.M., Marche, T.A., & von Baeyer, C.L. (2007). “OUCH” Children’s memory for pain: Implications for clinical care. Mental Notes, 12-13.
  • Loehr, J., & Marche, T. A. (2006). Omitting details from post-event information: Are true and false memory affected in the same way? Memory, 14, 17-26.
  • Marche, T. A., Brainerd, C. J., Lane, D. G., & Leohr, J. D. (2005). Item-level directed forgetting diminished false-memory. Memory, 13, 749 -758.
  • Torrens, D., Marche, T.A., & Thompson, V. (2008). Depressive symptoms and negatively-biased false memories. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG.
  • von Baeyer, C. L., Marche, T. A., Rocha, E. M., & Salmon, K. (2004). Children’s memory for pain: Overview and implications for practice. Journal of Pain, 5(5), 241-249.
  • von Baeyer, C. L., Marche, T. A., Rocha, E. M., Salmon, K., Teisseyre, L., Wood-Pillette, C. (2004). Memoire et douleur chez l’enfant. Douleurs, 5(3), 133-142.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Psychology 231.3  Psychology and Law
  • Psychology 255.3  Human Memory
  • Psychology 317.3  Advanced Developmental Psychology: Cognitive Development
  • Psychology 318.3  Research in Cognitive Development

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Member, STM Faculty Council Executive (Member, Nominations & Appointments Committee)
  • STM Department Head, Psychology
  • Member, Planning Committee 
  • Member, Tenure and Promotions Committee
  • Member, Strategic Planning Team #1