VERNE R. BACHARACH

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Current Address: Psychology Department

Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28607
Phone: (828) 262-2724 (Office)

CURRENT STATUS

Professor of Psychology

Department of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608

EDUCATION

Post Doctoral Fellow,
Bureau of Child Research,
University of Kansas
Medical School (1971-1972)

Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology)
University of Kansas (1971)

M.Sc.; B.A. (Psychology)
Central Washington University (1967; 1965)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Appalachian State University (Prof. of Psychology) - Boone, North Carolina, 1987-present.

Acadia University (Assistant Prof.; Associate Prof.; Prof essor of Psychology) - Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada - 1975-1987.

George Peabody College (Assistant Prof. of Psychology) - Nashville, Tennessee - 1973-1975.

University of Alabama (Assistant Prof. of Psychology) - Tuscaloosa, Alabama - 1972-1973.

Fort Hays Kansas State University (Instructor of Psychology) - Hays, Kansas - 1967-1969.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Chair, Department of Psychology, Appalachian State
University, Boone, NC, (l987-1990).

Director, Autism Project, John F. Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, (1986-1987).

Chair, Department of Psychology, Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, (1982-1985).

Acting Chair, Department of Psychology, Acadia University,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, (1980-1981).

Project Director for the Canadian Association for the
Mentally Retarded Supervisors Training Program,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, (1978).

Director, Summer Preschool Program for Mentally Handicapped
Children, Middleton and New Minus, Nova Scotia, (1977).

RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS

Research Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee (1985-1987).

Research Scientist - John F. Kennedy Center for Research on
Education and Human Development, George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee (1973-1975).

Research Scientist - Center for Developmental and Learning
Disabilities, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, (1972-1973).

LEAVE ASSIGNMENTS

Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology and Human
Development, Vanderbilt University, (1997).

Visiting Scholar, Flinders University, Adalaide, South
Australia, Australia (1981-1982).

COURSES TAUGHT

General Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Perception
Introductory Statistics
Developmental Psychology
Intelligence
Advanced Statistics
Tests and Measurement
Research Methods
Visual Perception
Language Development
Psycholinguistics
Mental Retardation
Human Memory
History and Systems in Psychology
Graduate Seminars in Cognitive Development and Cognition

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

"Semantic and Phrase Structure Processing in Multitrial Free Recall"

BOOK

Furr, R. M., & Bacharach, V. R. (2008). Psychometrics.: An introduction. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE  Publications.

PUBLICATIONS

Bacharach, V.R., Kellas, G. (1972). Phrase versus base
     structure effects on short-term retention. Journal of
     Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 10, 171-175.

Bacharach, V.R., Kellas, G., & McFarland, C. (1972).
Structural properties of transitive and intransitive
     verbs. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 11, 536-540.

Bacharach, V.R. (1972). Semantic and syntactic constraints
     on free recall learning of sentential material.
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 96, 223-225.

Bacharach, V.R., & Maisto, A. (1974). Prenominal adjective order and visual
     discrimination in children. Journal
     of Experimental Child Psychology, 17, 495-506.

Maisto, A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1975). Utilization of
    position cues by retarded children in serial learning. American Journal of
    Mental Deficiency, 79, 391-396.

Luszcz, M.A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1975). List organization
     and rehersal instructions in recognition memory of
     retarded adults. American Journal of Mental
     Deficiency, 80, 57-62.

Bacharach, V.R., & Carr, T.H. (1976). Interactive and
     independent contributions of verbal descriptions to
     children's picture memory. Journal of Experimental
     Child Psychology, 22, 492-498.

Carr, T.H., & Bacharach, V.R. (1976). Perceptual tuning and Concious attention:
     Systems of input regulation in visual information processing.
Cognition, 4, 281-302.

Carr, T.H., & Bacharach, V.R. (1977). Encoding and
     performance in sentences verification under varying
     memory load. Memory and Cognition, 5, 590-596.

Carr, T.H., Bacharach, V.R., & Mehner, D.S. (1977).
Preparing children to look at pictures: Advances
     descriptions direct attention and facilitate active
     processing. Child Development, 48, 22-27.

Carr, T.H., Bacharach, V.R. (1978). Developmental
     differences in remembering sentences after integration
     or selective semantic processing. Journal of
     Experimental Child Psychology, 26, 443-457.

Bacharach, V.R., & Luszcz, M.A. (1979). Communicative
     competence in young children: The use of implicit
     linguistic information. Child Development, 50,
     260-263.

Luszcz, M.A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1980). Preschooler's
     picture recognition memory: The pitfalls of knowing
     how a thing shall be called. Canadian Journal of
     Psychology, 34, 155-160.

Bashinski, H.S., & Bacharach, V.R. (1980). Enhancement of
     perceptual sensitivity as a result of selectively
     attending to spatial locations. Perceptions and
     Psychophysics, 28, 241-248.

Taylor, M., & Bacharach, V.R. (1981). The development of
     drawing rules: Meta-knowledge about drawings
     influences performance on non-drawing tasks. Child
     Development, 52, 373-375.

Taylor, M., & Bacharach, V.R. (1982). Drawing systems
     constraints on the visual accuracy of drawings produced by young
children.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 34, 311-329.

Luszcz, M.A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1983). The emergence of communicative
competence:Detection of conversation topics. Journal of Child Language, 10,
     623-637.

Bacharach, V.R. (1983). A first person science.
Contemporary Psychology, 28, 472-473.

Penfold, K, and Bacharach, V.R. (1988). Reading to very
     young children: The impact of illustrations in
     children's books. International Journal of Early
     Childhood, 20, 35-39.

Hobbs, M. and Bacharach, V.R. (1990). Children's
     understanding of big buildings and big cars. Child
     Study Journal, 20, 1-18.

Baumeister, A.A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1996). A critical
     analysis of the infant health and development program.
Intelligence, 23, 79-103.

Hill, R.W., McIntire, K., & Bacharach, V.R. (1997). Perfectionism and the big
     five factors. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 12, 1-15.

Bacharach, V.R. (1997). Agglutimated readings in cognitive
     development. Contemporary Psychology, 42, 926-927.

Baumeister, A.A., Bacharach, V.R., & Baumeister, A.A. (1997).
     "Big" versus "Little" science: Comparative analysis of
     program projects and individual research grants.
American Journal on Mental Retardation, 102, 211-227.

Bacharach, V.R., & Baumeister, A.A. (1998). Effects of
     maternal intelligence, marital status, income, and home
     environment on cognitive development in low birth weight
     infants. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 23, 197-205.

Bacharach, V.R., & Baumeister, A.A. (1998). Direct and indirect effects of
     maternal intelligence, maternal age, income, and home environment on
     intelligence of preterm, low-birth-weight children. Journal of Applied
     Developmental Psychology, 19, 349-363.

Baumeister, A.A., & Bacharach V.R. (2001). Early generic educational intervention
     has no effect on intelligence and does not prevent mental retardation: The
     Infant Health and Development Program. Intelligence, 28, 161-192.

Bacharach, V. R., & Baumeister, A. A. (2003). Racial and gender science
     achievement gaps in secondary education. The Journal of Genetic Psychology.

Bacharach, V. R., & Baumeister, A. A. (2003). Child care and severe
     externalizing behavior in kindergarten children. Journal of Applied
     Developmental Psychology, 23, 527-537.

RESEARCH REPORTS AND SYMPOSIUM PAPERS

Bacharach, V.R., Maisto, A., & Luszcz, M. (1974). Central representations and encoding in memory. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological
Association, New Orleans, LA, August.

Carr, T.H., & Bacharach, V.R. (1975). Directed attention and recognition memory in developmentally delayed adolescents. Presented at The Annual Meeting of the
Southeastern Psychological Association, Atlanta, GA, March.

Luszcz, M.A., & Bacharach, V.R. (1976). Children's recognition memory for components of complex scenes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario.

Carr, T.H., Bacharach, V.R., & Mehner, D.S. (1976). Verbal instructions and recognition memory for items in complex scenes. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

Carr, T.H., Bacharach, V.R. (1976). Selected attention and recognition memory in children. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Society for Research in Child Development, Nashville, TN.

Carr, T.H., & Bacharach, V.R. (1977). Semantic processing activity and attention to the information in sentences. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA.

Bacharach, V.R., & Vye, N. (1977). Motor components of visual imagery. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Vancouver, B.C.

Bacharach, V.R. (1978). Ocularmotor Activity and Visual
Imagery, Symposium on Eye Movements and Cognitive Processes. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, Ontario.

Taylor, M., & Bacharach, V.R. (1980). The development of drawing rules: Metaknowledge about drawings influencesperformance on non-drawing tasks. Paper presented at the Annual Canadian Psychological Association Meeting,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Bacharach, V.R. (1980). Ocularmotor activity and spatial mnemonics. Paper presented at the 21st International Congress of Psychology, Leipzig, East Germany.

Bacharach, V.R. (1982). Visual imagery and eye movements.
Invited address, Psychology Department, Adalaide University, Adalaide, South Australia.

Fastenau, P.S., and Bacharach, V.R. (1989). Differential
feedback and transfer: An investigation into self-awareness component of metamemory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Adkins, A., and Bacharach, V.R. (1995). Development of behavior problems in low-birthweight, premature infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Savannah, GA.

Adkins, A., and Bacharach, V.R. (1995). Maternal IQ, home environment and behavior problems at 36 months of low-birthweight premature infants. Poster presented at
the Meeting for the Soceity for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.

Galuszka, E., & Bacharach, V.R. (1997). Improving the home environments of low birth weight infants: Family intervention, maternal age, and knowledge of child
development. Poster presentation at the Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington D.C., April 3-6.

Stoecker, J.A., & Bacharach V.R. (2000). Predicting high school suspension: A national longitudinal study. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA, March, 2000

Michael, K. D., Campbell, C. C., Bacharach, V. R., & Furr, R. M. (2004). Absent fathers: Predicting behavior problems in kindergarters. Poster presented at the 2004 Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Lawrence Kansas, October 2004.

Michael, K. D., Ferguson, D., Bacharach V.R.,& Greenfield, K. (2008). The relationship between family structure, maternal depression, and AD/HD in a large representative sample of kindergarteners. Poster presented at the 2008 Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolscent Psychology, Lawrence, Kansas, Oct. 2008.

Durfee, T., & Bacharach V. R. (2008). Linking Utilization of Text
Mining Technologies and Academic Productivity, In Proceedings
of The Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS-42), Hawaii.

Ritter, K., Michael, K.D., Broman-Fulks, J., & Bacharach, V. R. (2010) A Meta-Analytic Review of Treatments for Abuse-Related Posttraumatic Stress. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA.

Ritter, K., Michael, K.D., Broman-Fulks, J., & Bacharach, V. (2010,
June). Evidence of overlap among treatments for abuse-related PTSD:
Results from a meta-analysis. Paper to be presented at the World
Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, MA.

PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Member, Southern Regional Education Board Task Force on
personnel policy for people who work with dually
diagnosed clients - l987. This task force included
state agency and state institution directors and
personnel, and university representatives from across
the Southeast Region. The Task Force Report was
published by SREB and distributed to the Governors
and State agency heads in all of the states in their region.

Director, Autism Project, J.F. Kennedy Center, Vanderbilt
University - l986-87. Created and established innovative program to serve autistic children in Middle Tennessee. The program was offered in conjunction with the Tennessee State Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

Project Director, Training program for supervisors of
facilities for the mentallly retarded, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - l978. Created and operated an l8-week program to train personnel to work in supervisory roles in
community facilities for the mentally retarded. The program included workshops given by authorities in the region in addition to guest lectures given by me to various interested groups in Nova Scotia. The project was funded by a grant that I obtained from the Canada Federal Government.

Director, Summer Preschool Program for Mentally Retarded Children - Middleton and Port William, Nova Scotia - l977. Created and directed a preschool program for mentally retarded children. The program was funded by the Canada Federal Government.

GRANTS

Principle Investigator, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Operating Grant (1977-1983)

Principle Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Operating Grant (1981-1982)

Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (1981-1982)

Project Coordinator and grantee, Canada Secretary of State
Grant (1976)

Participating Investigator, National Institute of Child Health and Development Program Project Grant (1973-1975)

CONSULTING EDITOR

American Journal of Mental Deficiency (1973-1975)

CONSULTING REVIEWER

American Educational Research Journal

American Journal of Mental Deficiency

Australian Journal of Psychology

Canadian Psychology

Child Development

Developmental Psychology

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Consultant

Statistical and Research Methods

BOOK REVIEWER

Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography

Contemporary Psychology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Intelligence
Child Development
Research Methods
Psychometrics