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Credentials: Dr.
Bohémier is in his seventeenth year of teaching at C-SC. Dr. Bohémier
earned his B.A. in psychology from Western New England College in
Springfield, Massachusetts and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental
Cognitive Psychology from the State University of
New York at Binghamton. Dr. Bohémier also holds two Ph.D.
minors: Developmental Cognition and Systems Science.
Dr.
Bohémier
is
an associate member of the Psychonomics Society and a
member of the Midwestern Psychological
Association.

Teaching Experience
Courses taught at Culver-Stockton College
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Advanced
Research Methods in Psychology
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Altered states of
Consciousness
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Astronomy
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Biological
Psychology
-
Career Seminar
in Psychology
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Communicating in Psychology
-
Death and Dying
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Exploratory
and Professional Internships
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Gender Studies
-
General
Psychology
-
History and
Systems of Psychology
-
Human
Motivation
-
Introduction
to Research Methods
-
Learning
Theories
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Memory and
Cognition
-
Psychological
Assessment
-
Principles of
Ethology
-
Psychology of
Film and Cinema
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Psychology of
Language
-
Psychology of
Music
-
Psychology of
Reading
-
Self-Awareness and Human
Relationships
-
Senior Seminar
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Sensation and
Perception
-
Statistics
At Hobart and William Smith Colleges and at SUNY Binghamton
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Cognitive Psychology
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Neural Networks
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Motivation
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Quantitative Methods
-
Semiotics

A Sampling of
Student-Related Academic Activities
Faculty Advisor, Psi
Chi
Chapter
881
I
received
a
certificate
of appreciation for outstanding service as a
faculty advisor in 1996, 1998, and 2007. I established the Psi
Chi chapter at Culver-Stockton College in 1996. I've been a
member of Psi Chi for thirty-five years. I was Psi Chi's charter
president at Western New England College and during that time earned a
student service award. I was also nominated for a New England
Psychological Association Undergraduate Research Award.
Faculty Advisor, Psychology
Club, fall 1994 - spring 1998. (The Psychology Club Homecoming
float won 3rd prize out of 78 entrants in the 1998 Homecoming parade.)
Faculty Advisor, Pre-Occupational
Therapy
Program,
fall 2006 - spring 2009.
Faculty Sponsor, Exploratory
and
Advanced
Internships
Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate
Research
Projects
Between the spring of
1994
and the spring of 2007, more than 150 students from Culver-Stockton
College have conducted an original psychological research project. Many
of these students have gone on to present papers or posters at Regional
and National conferences, and some students have had their research
published.
Faculty
Advisor,
Occupational
Therapy
Club
Supervises psychology
students
in the Earn and learn program (Now called "student employees.")
Organizes trips to conferences. Annual trips
to the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference; The
ILLOWA
Conference, and the Tri-States Undergraduate Conference.
Webmaster, Psychology
Department
Webmaster, ILLOWA
Faculty Supervisor of
PsychTalk, the Psychology Department's Newsletter.
Editor of the Psychology Department's
Student Handbook
Chair (1994 - 2008) and member (2009 -
present) of C-SC's Psychological Research
Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Coordinates the psychology department's
annual assessment
program.
Serves as a reviewer of undergraduate
manuscripts for the Journal
of Psychological Inquiry
Serves as a reviewer of textbooks and
software for many publishers.
Organizes C-SC's biannual APA Style
Workshops.
Serves as an Evaluator for Pillars
Scholarships.
Listed in the Culver-Stockton College's Expert's
Directory
Participates in "Hit the Hill Days" and
Family Weekend.
Server: Thanksgiving Dinners.
Hosted the Psychology Club's annual
picnic (1994-1999, 2007) and Psi Chi's annual picnic
(1996–present).
Participates in the the host family program
for C-SC's international students.
Psychology Department Chairperson.

Academic Committees
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Academic
Computing
-
Academic Council
-
ACE: Academic
and Cultural Affairs
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Assessment
-
Committee on Faculty
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General Education
-
Honors Program
-
Informational
Technology
-
Judicial
-
Library
-
Social and
Behavioral sciences
-
Adult Education

Sabbaticals
2010-2011: To investigate ways to
increase intrinsic motivation in undergraduate research.
Research
Interests
MEMORY
To investigate gender differences in olfactory memory
as modulated by controlled verses automatic processing of olfactory
stimuli.
To investigate the effects of asynchronous (background) music on memory
using stimuli normed for familiarity.
To investigate the relationship between memory retrieval and
eye-movements during eyewitness testimony.
To investigate the role
of schemas on perception of astronomical observational
inferences.
PSYCHOLOGY OF READING
To investigate the
input description under which the lexicon is addressed.
To investigate and time-lock orthographic and phonological
neighborhood density effects during word recognition.
To investigate factors of word recognition as shown by spontaneous
readers.
To investigate interference effects during
word recognition of those with multiple lexicons.

A
Sampling of Psychology Publications
Bohémier, G. (1999). The role of neighborhood rhyme during
visual word recognition. Ex Scientia. 5(1). pp. 85-103.
Bohémier, G. (2000). Is there a role of neighborhood density in skilled
reading? Ex Scientia. 6(1). pp. 81-99.
Bohémier, G., Hurley, J., Kent, A., Mast, M., Plenge, C., & Jones,
K. (2001) Biodots: Help or Hype? Ex Scientia. 7(1). pp.
105-113.
Inhoff, A. W., Bohémier, G., & Briihl D. (1992). Integration of
text across fixations in reading and copytyping. In K. Rayner (Ed.),
Eye movements and visual cognition: Scene perception and reading.
New York: Springer-Verlag. pp. 355-368.
Inhoff, A.W., Briihl, D., Bohémier, G. &, Wang, J. (1992). Eye-hand
span and coding of text during copytyping. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 18(2).
pp. 298-306.
Recent
Conference
Presentations
Kelly,
K.,
Anderson, R., Bohémier, G., & Case, K. (2009,
April). Creative tips for teaching writing skills. Midwestern
Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Bohémier,
G.,
Booth, S., McDonald, B., Simon, M., & Tharp, B. (2008, May). The
effect
of
familiar
background music varying in tempo on cognitive
performance. Association for Psychological Science
Conference, Chicago, IL.

Astronomy
Astronomical
League
Regional
Service
Award,
Earned
Messier and Herschel Certificates
Served as the AL's Chairperson or the Northeast division (NERAL)
Association
of
Lunar
&
Planetary Observers
Served as a tutor for the equipment
and techniques division
Springfield
(MA)
Telescope
and
Reflector Society (S.T.A.R.S.)
Served as the societies' President
and newsletter editor
The Webb Society
(London, UK)
Community Service
• Conducts astronomy talks and observational
astronomy sessions for Girl Scouts, regional secondary schools, and
local churches.
• Conducts literature
luncheons, participates in career carnivals, presents talks and
classroom discussions, and a serves as a member of the PTO and the band
booster club in the Canton, MO Public Schools.
• Involved in many local
community fund-raising activities for non-profit organizations.
• Listed in Culver-Stockton
College’s Community Speaker’s Directory.
• Served as a judge in
regional science fairs.
• Served as a SPSS and IRB
consultant for the Blessing Memorial Hospital School of Nursing
(Quincy, IL).
• Served as computer
consultant for Palmyra, MO Public Library.
• Served as project leader for
the Canton 4-H Club.
• Supporter of the Quincy, IL
Museum of Natural History and Art.
• Supporter and advocate of
light trespass and light pollution laws.
•
Sierra Club: Osage Division
• Active member of Clearing
Skies, a regional environmental protection group.
I live in Canton,
Missouri near the college. I was born and raised in Massachusetts in
the Connecticut Valley area of the state and I've spent most of my life
enjoying learning--and I'm still at it! My principal hobby is observational
astronomy. But I'm an eclectic hobbyist. Some days you may find
me with a telescope looking for obscure planetaries
or with a microscope studying spores (my specialty is palynology). On
other days you may find me collecting fossils, rocks, meteorites or
just watching nature. On still other days you may find me
reading, constructing mysterious objects, watching vintage sci-fi
movies, or listening to avant-garde classical or progressive rock
music.
I also like water skiing, cross-country skiing, boating,
hiking, camping, and taking "century trips" on my bicycle. In addition,
I love trying new cuisines, going to plays, concerts, and museums. On
weekends, I love gardening, working on the house, and going to garage
sales or antiquing.

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