Associate Professor
Email: gold@unm.edu
Office: Logan 148
Office Hours: T R 10-11:30
Phone: 505-277-7505

Degree Received
Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 1984

Research Interests
Applied cognitive psychology, human factors, and computer modeling. The general theme of my research centers on assessing and representing knowledge and skill. My current efforts are aimed at deriving and validating methods of eliciting, representing, and evaluating human knowledge and skill. This work is being performed in both academic and applied settings.

• Trumpower, D. L., Goldsmith, T. E. & Guynn, M. J. (in press). Goal specificity and knowledge acquisition in statistics problem solving: Evidence for attentional focus. Memory & Cognition.
• Trumpower, D. L. & Goldsmith, T. E. (in press). Structural enhancement of learning. Contemporary Educational Psychology.
• Miner, N. E., Goldsmith, T. E., & Caudell, T. P. (2002). Perceptual validation experiments for evaluating the quality of wavelet-synthesized sounds. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 11, 508-524.
• Goldsmith, T. E. & Johnson, P. J. (2002). Assessing and improving evaluation of aircrew performance, International Journal of Aviation Psychology, 12, 223-240.
• Morris, M.E, Goldsmith, T. E., Roll, S., & Smith, J. E. (2001). A Model for assessing the self-schemas of restrained eaters, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25, 201-214.

Graduate Students in Lab
Stacey Hendrickson
Brenda Martinez-Papponi
Susan Stevens