Associate Professor
Email: ghodge@unm.edu
Office: Logan 176
Office Hours: M W 2-3
Phone: 505-277-3019
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Degree Received
Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles, 1977

Research Interests
My current research interests focus on learning and teaching at the university level in general and the best ways students learn and professors teach introductory psychology in particular.

Gordon Hodge is Associate Professor of Psychology and Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA and has been at UNM since 1976. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and a Past-President of the Southwestern Psychological Association. He has served as an Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Chairperson of the university's Teaching Enhancement Committee. Over the last 10 years his research has focused on ways of enhancing teaching and learning for which he has received national, regional, and university recognition. Honors and awards include the National Institute for the Teaching of Psychology's Frank Costin Award, the University of New Mexico's College of Arts and Sciences Gunter Starkey Award for teaching, and UNM's Teacher of the Year Award. He has developed interactive CD-ROMs and PowerPoint slide sets to accompany introductory psychology texts published by various companies, including Harcourt, Prentice-Hall, and Wadsworth/Thomson. For the last several years he has been implementing a redesign of the Intro Psychology course, which was funded by the Pew Grant for Course Redesign. Compared to traditional methods of teaching Intro Psych, the quiz-focused redesign has reduced the drop-failure-withdrawal rate from 42 percent to 18 percent. He currently consults for the Center for Academic Transformation's Road-to-Redesign effort to enable universities to adopt introductory psychology redesigns.

Selected Publications
Dencoff, J. E., & Hodge, G. K. (1995). Failure of physostigmine to attenuate scopolamine-or lesion induced impairments in an operant discrimination task. Psychobiology, 23, 290-301.
Hodge, G. K., & Renner, M. (1996). Multimedia Psych. [CD-ROM]. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Butt, A.E., & Hodge, G.K. (1997). Simple and configural association learning in rats with bilateral quisqualic acid lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis. Behavioral Brain Research. 89, 71-85.
Friedman, S.D., Castaneda, E., & Hodge, G.K. (1998). Long-term monoamine depletion, differential recovery, and subtle behavioral impairment following methamphetamine-induced neurotoxicity. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 61, 35-44.
Hodge, G. K. (1999). Interactive Psych. [CD-ROM]. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
Hodge, G. K. (1999). PowerPoint Slide Sets. [CD-ROM]. Matlin’s Psychology and Rathus’s Psychology in the New Millennium. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
Hodge, G. K. (2000) PowerPoint Slide Sets [CD-ROM] to accompany Robert Sternberg's Psychology: In Search of the Human Mind, 3rd ed., and Atkinson et al.’s Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology, 13th edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
Hodge, G. K., & Nelson, N. H. (2000). Demonstrating Differential Reinforcement by Shaping Classroom Participation. In M. E. Ware & D. Johnson (Eds.), Handbook of demonstrations and activities in the teaching of psychology. Volume II: Physiological-comparative, perception, learning, cognitive and developmental. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 139-141. (Reprinted from Teaching of Psychology, 1991, 18, 239-241)
Hodge, G. K. (2001). PowerPsych [CD-ROM] to accompany Robert Sternberg's In Search of the Human Mind, 3rd ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt.
Hodge, G. K., & Nelson, N. H. (2002). Demonstrating Differential Reinforcement by Shaping Classroom Participation. In R. A. Griggs (Ed.), Handbook for teaching introductory psychology. Volume III (With an emphasis on assessment). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 220-222. (Reprinted from Teaching of Psychology, 1991, 18, 239-241)
Hodge, G. K. (2002). PowerPoint Slide Set. [CD-ROM]. To accompany McKim’s Drugs and Behavior: An Introduction to Behavioral Pharmacology, 5th edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Hodge, G. K. (2003). Psych Odyssey [CD-ROM]. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Hodge, G. K., & Sternberg. R. (2004). Unifying Psychology [CD-ROM] to accompany Robert Sternberg's Psychology: In Search of the Human Mind, 4th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning.
Akers, K., & Hodge, G.K. (2005). The virtual cola challenge. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Recent Presentations
Hodge, G. K. (1999, August). Use of computerized multimedia in teaching psychology: A national survey of experiences and expectations of teachers of psychology. [Invited Address]. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Hodge, G. K. (2001, December). The biology of passion and love. [Invited Lecture]. University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Hodge, G. K. (2003, February). Redesign of Introductory Psychology. [Invited Address]. State-of-the-Art Learning Environments Workshop. Dallas, TX
Hodge, G. K. (2004, April). Innovative practices in teaching introductory psychology: Animations and quizzes. [Invited Address]. 50th Annual Convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association. San Antonio, TX.
Hodge, G. K. (2004, April). Enhancing PowerPoint Presentations with QuickTime Movies and Animation Effects. [Invited Address]. 74th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. Reno, NV.
Hodge, G. K. (2004, April). WebCT Quizzes Plus Multimedia Instruction Equals Better Learning. [Invited Address]. 74th Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association. Reno, NV.