Jerome Frieman, Ph.D.

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Ph.D. 1968, Kent State University, Psychology

M.S. 1965, Western Reserve University, Psychology

B.A. 1963, Western Reserve University, Psychology

A Retrospective from Dr. Friedman

Over the 49 years I was at Kansas State University, I am especially proud of the following three things I facilitated for our department: the founding of our chapter of Psi Chi in 1970 and serving as chapter advisor for 30 years, the creation of Junior Seminar in 1975 and teaching it until 2012, and the creation of our Alumni Advisory Council in 2007. I also helped create the Freshman Seminar in the College of Arts and Sciences (now First Year Seminar in K-State Culture) in 1988 and served as its first coordinator. At the University level, I am especially proud of the following three activities: helping to draft the original KSU Policy Prohibiting Sexual Harassment in 1980 and later serving as Interim Director of the Office of Affirmative Action (now Office of Civil Rights and Title IX) in 1993-1994; while serving on the Commission on the Status of Women, helping convince President Duane Acker to authorize the establishment of the KSU Child Care Cooperative (now the Center for Child Development) in 1984 and serving on the committee that created it; and while serving as Chairperson for the Faculty Senate President’s Group in 1984, convincing the Board of Regents to recognize the Faculty Senate Presidents as representatives of the faculty at Board meetings.

For the first 5 years, we lived one block from campus on 17^th Street. In 1972, we moved to Topeka where my wife Jeanne worked first at Kansas Neurological Institute and later in private practice. She retired in 2016. Our son Karl is an attorney with offices in the San Francisco Bay area. He and his wife have two adult children. Our daughter Varda works for Fidelity Corporation in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. She and her husband have two daughters. We moved to Cary, North Carolina, after I retired in 2017.

Research Interests

Dr. Frieman and his students conducted studies on operant and Pavlovian conditioning in pigeons, rats, and dwarf hamsters, and social learning in dwarf hamsters and spotted hyenas.

Books

Frieman, J., Saucier, D.A., & Miller, S.A. (2018). Principles and methods of statistical analysis. Los Angeles: Sage.

Frieman, J, & Reilly, S. (2016). Learning: A behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary synthesis. Los Angeles: Sage.

Frieman, J. (2002). Learning and adaptive behavior. Pacific Grove, CA: Wadsworth.

Thompson, C.P., Cowan, T.M., & Frieman, J. (1993). Portrait of a memorist. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum

Representative Papers

Frieman, J., & Goyette, C.H. (1973). Transfer of training across stimulus modality and response class. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 97, 235-241.

Thompson, C.P., Cowan, T.M., Frieman, J., Mahadevan, R.S., Vogl, R.J., & Frieman, J.P. (1991). Rajan: Study of a memorist. Journal of Memory and Language, 30, 702-724.

Thiele, T.E., & Frieman, J. (1994). Taste potentiated color aversions in pigeons: Examination of CS preexposure and subsequent effects on postconditioning extinction of the taste aversion. Animal Learning and Behavior, 22, 436-441

Lupfer, G., Frieman, J., and Coonfield, D. (2003). Social Transmission of Flavor Preferences in Two Species of Hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus and Phodopus campbelli). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 117, 449–455.

Tarner, N., Frieman, J., & Mehiel, R. (2004). Extinction and spontaneous recovery of a conditioned flavor preference. Learning and Motivation, 35, 83-101.