Amy Odum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her research interests are in basic behavioral phenomena, such as response persistence, sensitivity to delayed outcomes, conditional discriminations, and environmental influences on drug effects. Her work has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Odum completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Vermont’s Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory after earning her Ph.D. and M.A. in Psychology, specializing in Behavior Analysis, from West Virginia University. She received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Florida. Her teaching interests include basic behavior analysis and behavioral pharmacology. Dr. Odum has served on the board of editors of a number of journals and is currently Associate Editor for the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.
Articles
Differential Outcomes Enhance Accuracy of Delayed Matching to Sample but Not Resistance to Change (with J. A. Nevin, R. D. Ward, C. Jimenez-Gomez, and Timothy A. Shahan), Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (2009)
Three experiments assessed the relation between the differential outcomes effect and resistance to change of...
Effects of Prefeeding, Extinction, and Distraction during Sample and Comparison Presentation on Sensitivity to Reinforcer Frequency in Matching to Sample (with Ryan D. Ward and Robert N. Johnson), Behavioural Processes (2009)
The present experiment examined the effects of several test manipulations on discrimination, accuracy and sensitivity...
Nicotine Does Not Enhance Discrimination Performance in a Temporal Bisection Procedure (with Ryan D. Ward, Scott T. Barrett, and Robert N. Johnson), Behavioural Pharmacology (2009)
Recent reports of selective disruption of stimulus control by drug administration and other disruptive operations...
Contrast Effects in Response Rate and Accuracy of Delayed Matching to Sample (with John A. Nevin and Timothy A. Shahan), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2008)
Behavioural contrast is an inverse relation between the response rate in one component of a...
Discriminative Control of Variability: Effects of Successive Stimulus Reversals (with Ryan D. Ward, Adam D. Kynaston, and Ericka M. Bailey), Behavioural Processes (2008)
A growing body of evidence suggests that behavioral variability can come under control of discriminative...
Contributions to Books
Delay Discounting: State and Trait Variable (with A.L. A. Baumann), Impulsivity: The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting (2010)
Impulsivity explores the basis for the seemingly universal tendency to devalue rewards or punishments that...
B. F. Skinner, Magill's Encyclopedia of Social Science: Psychology (2003)
"A comprehensive introduction to psychology, this work will find a home in a broad range...