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Dr Greta Defeyter

Role: Senior Lecturer
Email: greta.defeyter@northumbria.ac.uk
Phone: 0191 227 3291
Room: NB 143A

My publications

About

Greta took her first degree in Psychology at the University of Essex. After completing an ESRC funded PhD she began working as a Senior Research officer at the University of Essex. She came to Northumbria in 2003. Greta is a senior lecturer within the Division of Psychology and is a member of the following committees: The Steering Group on Teaching and Assessment within the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences, the Steering Panel for the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, the Student Affairs Committee, and the Internal Communications Committee. Greta was awarded the first CETL Associate post within the University in 2005

Research

Dr. Greta Defeyter has interests in object function from a developmental point of view. Funded by both the ESRC and the British Academy, her work has shown that there is a conceptual shift in the structure of the child's concept of artifact function between the ages 5 and 7, and that this conceptual shift has a striking effect on problem-solving performance. Projects include studies relating to Theory of Mind, the development of recognition memory, property ownership, young children's susceptibility to functional fixedness and young children's reasoning about artifact origins, functions and identity. Current research projects, funded by Kellogg's UK, are investigating (1) the effect of breakfast club attendance on school performance, and (2) the effect of breakfast consumption on adult's cognitive performance.