B.A. City University, CUNY
M.S. City University, CUNY
Ph.D. Yeshiva University

Dissertation title: Discrimination learning as a function of excitation-inhibition balance. Dissertation Abstracts International
Volume 31, page 7638B.

Fields: Experimental Psychology: Human learning, cognition and development.
Cosmological Psychology: A metatheoretical approach to psychology.

Experience:

William Paterson University
Department of Psychology
Director of the Human Learning and Cognition Laboratory
July 1980 to Present

Professor
Primary responsibility has been the teaching of courses in the following areas: general psychology; experimental psychology I (statistics); experimental psychology II (laboratory); developmental psychology; psychology of learning; children's learning; physiological psychology(biopsychology), and the history and systems of psychology.

Established the Human Learning and Cognition Laboratory in 1980 that is currently engaged in experimental research into the following areas: cosmological psychology, human inductive concept formation, human random number generation, human temporal behaviors, human learning and reaction times, classical conditioning of word meanings, classical conditioning of reading responses, human knowledge-of-results in time-estimation-behavior.

Served as the Chair of the Psychology Department charged with "...the supervision of all matters related to the department..." (University Regulations)

Rutgers University
Graduate School of Education

July 1971 to July 1980

Assistant Professor

Taught a wide range of courses consistent with my general interests in human learning, cognition and development. Published work that concentrated upon the educational applications of human experimental psychology (See pages 4 to 7 for papers published from 1971 to 1980).

City College of New York
Department of Psychology

July 1967 to July 1971

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Taught general psychology with stress upon experimental, developmental, cognitive and physiological aspects of modern psychology.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Research Division

July 1970 to July 1973

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

Engaged in the longitudinal study of children's cognitive development with emphasis on social class differences, mother-child interactions, psycholinguistic development, attentional processes, persistence at tasks and delay capacity (See publications on pages 4 to 7).

New York Institute of Technology
Department of Behavioral Sciences

July 1969 to July 1970

Assistant Professor

Taught the following courses: experimental psychology; psychological statistics; psychological tests and measurements; and general, introductory psychology.

New York Medical College
Brain Research Laboratory

May 1968 to September 1969

Research Assistant

Conducted experiments dealing with a series of highly complex discrimination-learning tasks in the cat. Performed surgical operations to implant electrodes in the living cat brain in order to study the neural correlates of learning.

Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics

September 1965 to May 1968

Research Assistant

Assisted in a research group studying aspects of the perceptual organization of brain-damaged patients with the overall research strategy of using such data to reveal sensory/perceptual aspects of normal cognitive development.

New York City Board of Education

October 1962 to September 1965

Teacher

Taught one year fifth grade in an elementary school and two years of mathematics in a junior high school in predominantly Hispanic areas of New York City.

Publications:
(This section includes refereed journal articles, refereed papers to national conventions, refereed papers to international conventions, abstracts of refereed papers, doctoral dissertation, educational tests, published proceedings of refereed papers, and selected nonrefereed talks and papers at local colleges, universities and medical schools. As of January 2001, the Web of Science scientific database currently shows that 31 of the following publications have impacted the field of psychology for a total of 111 different citations, most of which are contained in the Social Science Citation Index.)

Montare, A. (1971) Discrimination learning as a function of excitation-inhibition balance.(Doctoral dissertation, Yeshiva University, 1970). Dissertation Abstracts International, 31, 7638B. (University Microfilms No. 71-14299)

Montare, A. (1972) Relationship between human temporal behavior and discrimination-reversal learning. Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, 7 , 877. Paper presented to Division 3 at the 80th Annual Convention of the American
Psychological Association, Honolulu.

Golden, M. , Bridger, W. & Montare, A. (1972) Social class differences in the use of language to facilitate learning in two-year children. Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, 7, 107-108. Paper presented to Division 7 at the 80th Annual
Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu.

Bridger, W., Golden, M. & Montare, A. (1972) Social class differences in the ability of young children to use verbal information to facilitate learning. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Research Society, Washington, D.C.

Montare, A. (1973) A longitudinal study of cognitive development. Paper presented to the Research Seminar of the Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Montare, A. & Boone, S. (1973) Language and aggression: An exploratory study amongst black and Puerto Rican youth. Research in Education , 8, 30. (ERIC Document Reproduction Number ED074502, 10 pages). Paper presented to Division C at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. New Orleans.

Montare, A. (1973) Discrimination learning in college students . Paper presented to the Research Seminar of the Department of Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.

Golden, M., Bridger, W, & Montare, A. (1974) Social class differences in the ability of young children to use verbal information to facilitate learning. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry , 44 , 86-91.

Bridger, W., Golden, M., & Montare, A. (1974) Social class differences in the use of verbal information to facilitate learning in two-year old children. Journal of Psychiatric Research , 10 , 164. (Abstract).

Tuckman, B. & Montare, A. (1974) Psychometrics and behavior: A test to measure 21 school objectives. Paper presented to Division 5 at the 82nd Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, New Orleans.

Montare, A. (1974) A review of Hallahan's & Cruickshank's Psychoeducational Foundations of Learning Disabilities. 5, 307-308. (Book review).

Montare, A. (1974) Psychodocentiles in the Ghetto: Intelligence and minorities. Paper presented to the Annual Joint Meeting of the New Jersey School Psychologists and Social Workers.

Montare, A. & Elman,E. (1975) Words and pictures: replication and reinterpretation.Resources in Education, 10, 64. (Abstract).

Montare, A. & Golden, M. (1975) Delay capacity at 24 and 30 months of age. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver.

Montare, A. (1975) Temporal correlates of human discrimination-reversal learning. Paper presented to Division 3 at the 83rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.

Montare, A. & Heyman, M. (1975) Temporal organization and learning within sixth-grade students. Paper presented to Division 15 at the 83rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.

Tuckman, B. & Montare, A. (1975) Educational Goal Attainment Tests. National Educational Honorary Society: Bloomington, Indiana. Tests were developed under the auspices of the New Jersey State Department of Education and the Puerto Rican
Congress of New Jersey. Tests assess a wide range of psychoeducational goals, they are:

Boone, S. & Montare, A. (1976) Test of the language-aggression hypothesis. Psychological Reports, 39, 851-857.

Montare, A., Elman, E. & Cohen, J. (1976) Words and pictures: Failure of the Samuel's design to test for distractability. Resources in Education, 11, 67.

Montare, A. & Tuckman, B. (1976) Phi Delta Kappa needs assessment: The Educational Goal Attainment Tests. AERA Annual Meeting Abstracts, Page 74, American Educational Association: Washington, D.C.(Abstract)

Tuckman, B., & Montare, A. (1976) Phi Delta Kappa needs assessment: The applications of the Educational Goal Attainment Tests. Paper presented to Division H at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.

Montare, A., Elman, E., & Cohen, J. (1976) Words and pictures: A test of Samuel's findings. Paper presented to Division 15 at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Montare, A. (1976) Measuring the attainment of competencies. In Research Report of the Task Force on Competency Indicators and Standards. New Jersey State Department of Education: Trenton, New Jersey.

Montare, A. (1976) Temporal organization, learning and hyperactivity. Paper presented to the Research Seminar at the William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

Tuckman, B. & Montare, A. (1977) The many uses of PDK's Goal Attainment Tests. Phi Delta Kappan, 58, 610-613.

Montare, A. (1977) Human temporal behavior and discrimination-reversal learning. Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science, 12, 232-248.

Montare, A., Elman, E. & Cohen, J. Words and pictures: A test of Samuel's findings. Journal of Reading Behavior, 9, 269-285.

Golden, M., Montare, A. & Bridger, W. (1977) Verbal control of delay behavior in two-year old boys. Child Development, 48, 1107-1111.

Montare, A., Geyer, J. & Tuckman, B. (1977) Basic skills: What competencies shall be measured, and how? Paper presented to Division H at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.

Montare, A., Tuckman, B., & Butler, T. (1977) Achievement and intelligence: Individual instruction reverses the trend. Paper presented to Division C at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.

Montare, A. (1977) Affirmative action: The two interpretations. Editorial letter to the Editor, The New York Times, December 11, 1977.

Montare, A., Geyer, J., & Tuckman, B. (1977) Basic skills: What competencies shall be measured, and how? Resources in Education, 12, 208-209.

Montare, A. & Tuckman, J. (1977) Achievement and intelligence. Resources in Education, 12, 210-211.

Montare, A. & Boone, S. (1978) Aggression and paternal absence: Racial differences among inner-city males. Paper presented to Division C at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto.

Montare, A. (1978) Affirmative Action: An American paradox. Paper presented to the First Annual Convention of the Hispanics in Higher Education, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey.

Boone, S. & Montare, A. (1979) Aggression and family size. Journal of Psychology, 103, 67-70.

Montare, A. (1979) Associative processes in learning to read. Journal of Reading Behavior, 11, 183-184.

Montare, A. & Boone, S. (1980) Aggression and paternal absence: Racial differences among inner-city boys. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 137, 223-232.

Montare, A. (1980) Groups and individuals: A test for significant individual differences. Paper presented to Division 5 at the 88th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Montreal.

Montare, A., Sensale, E. & Boone, S. (1982) Language and aggression: Race-by-sex interactions. Paper presented to Division 7 at the 90th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Montare, A. (1983) Temporal correlates of children's discrimination learning. Journal of Psychology , 115 , 137-144.

Montare, A. (1983) Temporal correlates of discrimination learning. Perceptual and Motor Skills , 57 , 763-774.

Montare, A. (1983) Methodological approaches to aggression. Paper presented to the Second Biennial Conference on Aggression and Violence, William Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey.

Montare, A. (1984) The effects of knowledge of results upon time estimation.Paper presented to Division 3 at the 92nd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto.

Montare, A. (1985) Learning effects of knowledge of results upon time estimation.Perceptual and Motor Skills, 60, 871-877.

Montare, A. & Benducci, D. (1986) Time and learning. Paper presented to Division 3 at the 94th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Montare, A. (1997) Classical conditioning of beginning reading responses. Paper presented to Division 15 at the 95th Annual Convention of American Psychological Association, New York.

Montare, A. (1988) Further learning effects of knowledge of results upon time estimation. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 66, 579-588.

Montare, A. (1988) Affirmative Action: An American paradox 10 years later. Paper presented to the Tenth Annual Convention of Hispanics in Higher Education, Montclair State College, Montclair, New Jersey.

Montare, A. (1988) Classical conditioning of beginning reading responses. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 67, 611-621.

Montare, A. (1989) A proposed model for the differentiation of variances. Paper presented to Division 5 at the 97th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans.

Montare, A. (1990) Conditioning the reaction time response. Perceptual and Motor Skills,71, 509-510.

Montare, A. (1992) In search of the chronogram, Paper presented to the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Cerisy-La-Salle, Normandy, France, July 1992.

Montare, A. (1992) Knowledge acquired from learning: Procedural cognition and its declarative cognizance. International Journal of Psychology, 27, 121. (Abstract of paper presented to the 25th International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium, July, 1992.)

Montare, A. (1992) Knowledge acquired from learning: Procedural cognition and its declarative cognizance. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 74, 243-257.

Montare, A. (1992) Conditioning reaction time responses: Evidence for a process of conditioned automatization. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 75, 755-770.

Montare, A. (1994) Knowledge acquired from learning: New evidence of hierarchical conceptualization. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 79, 975-993.

Montare, A. (1995) Temporal correlates of Montare's proposed conceptual hierarchy.Paper presented at the 7th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York, June 1995.

Montare, A. (1995) Time, mind and the acquisition of knowledge. Paper presented to the Ninth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time, Sainte Adele, Quebec, Canada, July 1995.

Montare, A. (1996) Cognition and its cognizance: Emergence of the hierarchical mind.International Journal of Psychology, 31, 190. (Abstract of paper presented to the International Congress of Psychology, Montreal, Canada, August 1996.)

Montare, A. (1999) Mind and cosmos: A cosmological psychology. Paper presented at the Humanities Lecture Series, April 1999, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey.

Montare, A. (1999) Toward a cosmological psychology. Paper presented at the Department of Philosophy Lecture Series, William PatersonUniversity, Wayne, New Jersey, March 1999.

Montare, A. (1999) A reversed-Turing-Test of human random number generation. Paper presented at the Mathematics Department Seminar Series, April 1999, Wayne, New Jersey.

Montare, A. (1999) A reversed Turing-Test of human random number generation.Perceptual and Motor Skills , 88, 138-146.

Montare, A. (2000) The ontological hypothesis of mind. Paper presented at the Department of Philosophy Lecture Series, William Paterson University, April 2000.

Montare, A. (2000) Cosmological psychology: An evolutionary framework for the emergence of the hierarchical mind. International Journal of Psychology, 35, 390. (Abstract of the paper presented to the XXVIIth International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2000.)

Montare, A. (2001) The neuroanatomy of reflection. Paper presented to the William Paterson University Department of Philosophy Lecture Series, April, 2001.

Montare, A. (2002) Cosmological psychology: A metatheoretical approach to psychological science. Paper presented to the Research and Scloraship Day at William Paterson University, April, 2002.

Montare, A. (2002) A theory of sulcal-gap communication. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 95, 375-406.
Montare, A. (Book in preparation) Cosmological psychology: A metatheoretical approach to psychological science.