Amy Y Chan

BSc(Hons), PhD (UNSW)

Position:

• Senior Lecturer
   

Teaching:

• PSYC101
• PSYC121
• PSYC123 
• PSYC241
• PSYC410
• PSYC479/PSYC979
   

Responsibilities:

• Fourth Year (Honours) Coordinator
• Member of School of Psychology Teaching Policy Committee 
• Member of School of Psychology School Executive Committee 
   

Research Interests:

• Counterfactual reasoning and their developmental and applied implications
• Metacognitive interventions to enhance learning outcomes
• Applied decision-making and problem-solving
• Innovations in undergraduate teaching and learning
   

Research Group:

• Brain & Behaviour Research Institute
• Perception & Cognition Laboratories
   

Affiliations:

• Australian Experimental Psychology Association
• Australasian Human Development Association
• Society for Research in Child Development
   

Recent Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Broady, T., Chan, A., & Caputi, P. (2010). Comparison of older and younger adults’ attitudes towards and abilities with computers: Implications for training and learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 41, 473-485. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00914.x.

Caputi, P., Chan, A. Y.C., & Jayasuriya, R. (2011). How helpful are error management and counterfactual thinking instructions to inexperienced spreadsheet users’ training task performance? British Journal of Educational Technology, 42(4), 592-597. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01177.x

Chan, A. Y. C., Caputi, P., & Jayasuriya, R. (2011). Easy task first?: Roles of metacognitive computer skills training strategies depend on how training tasks are sequenced. British Journal of Educational Technology, 42(4), E71-E75. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2011.01188.x

Chan, A. Y. C., Caputi, P., Jayasuriya, R., & Browne, J. L. (2011). Counterfactual thinking and anticipated emotions enhance performance in computer skills training. Behavior & Information Technology. First published on: 8 April 2011 (iFirst). DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2010.550319.

Browne, J. L., & Chan, A. Y. C. (2012). Mother-daughter communication about mammography in an Australian sample. Journal of Family Communication, 12, 129-150. DOI: 10.1080/15267431.2011.561144.

Browne, J.L. , & Chan, A.Y.C. (2012). Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour and implementation intentions to predict and facilitate upward family communication about mammography, Psychology & Health, 27, 655-673. DOI:10.1080/08870446.2011.615396

Chan, A. Y. C., Brewer, C., & Browne, J. L. (2012). An empirical case for introductory psychology tutorials in a large-class format. In S. McCarthy, K.L. Dickson, J. Cranney, A. Trapp, & V. Karandashev (Eds.) Teaching Psychology around the World (Volume 3) (pp.151-163). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Interests:

• Tennis, snow-skiing, classical music, sampling good desserts

Email:       amy_chan@uow.edu.au
Phone:     +61 2 4221 4468
Office:      B41.G46