Email Address:
laturner@southalabama.edu
Phone Number:
(251) 460-6013
Location:
UCOM 1020
Office Hours:
M/W: 9-11
Tu/Th: 8:30-9:30
CV

Lisa A. Turner, Ph.D.

Professor

Department of Psychology

Education

Ph.D., University of Alabama 1984: Experimental Psychology
M.S., University of Alabama 1982: Experimental Psychology
B.S., University of Alabama 1979: Psychology

Research Interests

Academic adjustment among emerging adults
Relations of parenting to psychological development of emerging adults

Publications

Turner, L.A. & Johnson, B. (accepted). Stress and coping in families of children with disabilities: A mixed research perspective. To appear in K.M.T. Collins, A.J. Onwuegbuzie, & Q. Jiao (Eds.) Toward a broader understanding of stress and coping: Mixed methods approaches. Charlotte, NC: Information Age.
Fulton, E. B. & Turner, L.A. (2008). Students’ academic motivation: relations with parental

warmth, autonomy granting, and supervision. Educational Psychology.
Turner, L., McGowan, M. W., Culpepper, C. L., & Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J. (2007). Social support for adolescent mothers: The role of community mentors. In Earl B Darlon (Ed), Adolescent Behavior Research Frontiers (pp. 1-14). Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Masood, A., Turner, L.A., & Baxter, A. (2007). Causal attributions and parental attitudes toward children with disabilities in the United States and Pakistan. Exceptional Children, 73(4), 475-487.
Johnson, R.B., Onwuegbuzie, A. J., & Turner, L.A. (2007). Toward a definition of mixed methods research. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 1, 112-133.
Langhinrichsen-Rohling, J., Turner, L. A., & McGowan, M. (2007). Family therapy and interpersonal violence: Targeting at-risk adolescent mothers. In J. Hamel and T. Nichols (Eds.) Family Approaches to Domestic Violence (pp. 477–498). NY: Springer.
Borkowski, J.G., Turner, L.A., & Nicholson, J.S. (2004). Executive functioning: Toward a research agenda for enhancing higher-level cognitive skills, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 4(2), 188-198.
Turner, L.A. & Johnson, R.B. (2003). A model of mastery motivation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95(3), 495-505.
Johnson, B. & Turner, L.A. (2002). Data collection in mixed methods research. In A. Tashakkori and C. Teddlie (Eds.), Handbook of Mixed Methodology. Sage Publications.
Jacobs, L., Turner, L.A., Faust, M. & Stewart, M. (2002). Social problem solving of children with and without mental retardation. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 14(1), 37–50.

VanHaneghan, J.P. & Turner, L.A. (2001). Information processing and motivation in people with mental retardation. In H.N. Switzky (Ed.), Personality and Motivational Differences in Persons with Mental Retardation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Turner, L.A. (1998). Relation of attributional beliefs to memory strategy use in children and adolescents with mental retardation. American Journal of Mental Retardation, 103(2), 162-172.
Burley, R.C., Turner, L.A., & Vitulli, W.F. (1998). The relationship between goal orientation and age among adolescents and adults. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 160(1), 84-88.
Turner, L.A., Pickering, S., & Johnson, R.B. (1998). The relationship of attributional beliefs to self-esteem. Adolescence, 33(130), 477-484.
Bray, N.W., Fletcher, K., & Turner, L. A. (1996). The emerging issue of cumulative deficits in strategy use. In W. McLean (Ed.), Handbook of Mental Retardation, Vol. 3.
Turner, L.A. (1996). Attributional beliefs of students with mental retardation. In M. Lewis & M. Sullivan (Eds.), Emotional development in atypical children, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
Turner, L.A., Johnson, R.B., & Pickering, S. (1996). Effect of ego and task instructions on cognitive performance. Psychological Reports, 78, 1051-1058.
Turner, L.A., Hale, C.A., & Borkowski, J.G. (1996). Influence of intelligence on memory development. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 100, 468-480.
Rellinger, E., Borkowski, J.G., Turner, L.A., & Hale, C. (1995). Perceived task difficulty and intelligence: Determinants of strategy use and recall. Intelligence, 20, 125-143.
Turner, L.A., Dofny, E.M., & Dutka, S. (1994). The effect of strategy and attribution training on strategy maintenance and transfer. American Journal on Mental Retardation, 99, 445-454.
Turner, L.A., Matherne, J.L., & Heller, S.S. (1994). The effects of performance feedback on memory strategy use and recall accuracy in students with and without mild mental retardation. Journal of Experimental Education, 62(4), 303-315.
Borkowski, J.G. & Turner, L.A. (1990). Transsituational characteristics of metacognition. In W. Schneider and F.E. Weinert (Eds.), Interactions among aptitudes, strategies and knowledge in cognitive performance. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Carr, M., Kurtz, B.E., Schneider, W., Turner, L.A., & Borkowski, J.G. (1989). Strategy acquisition and transfer among U.S. and German children: Environmental influences on metacognitive development. Developmental Psychology, 25, 765-771.
Kurtz, B.E., Borkowski, J.G., Carr, M., Schneider, W. & Turner, L.A. (1988). Sources of memory and metamemory development: Societal, parental, and educational influences. In M. Gruneberg, P. Morris, and R. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory, (Vol. 2). New York: Wiley.
Borkowski, J.G. & Turner, L.A. (1988). Cognitive development. In J.F. Kavanaugh (Ed.), Understanding mental retardation: Research accomplishments and new frontiers. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks.
Bray, N.W. & Turner, L.A. (1987). Production anomalies (not strategic deficiencies) in mentally retarded individuals. Intelligence, 11, 11-22.
Borkowski, J.G., Weyhing, R., & Turner, L.A. (1986). Attributional retraining and the teaching of strategies. Exceptional Children, 53, 130-137.
Bray, N.W. & Turner, L.A. (1986). The rehearsal deficit hypothesis. In N.R. Ellis and N.W. Bray (Eds.), International review of research in mental retardation (Vol. 14). New York: Academic Press.
Turner, L.A. & Bray, N.W. (1985). Spontaneous rehearsal in mildly retarded children and adolescents. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90, 57-63.
Bray, N.W., Turner, L.A., & Hersh, R.E. (1985). Developmental progressions and regressions in the selective remembering strategies of educable mentally retarded individuals. American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 90, 198-205.
Bray, N.W., Hersh, R.E., & Turner, L.A. (1985). Selective remembering during adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 21, 290-294.
Roberts, M.C., Boone, R.R., Wurtele, S.K., & Turner, L.A. (1982). Uncertainty reductions and attraction as effects on the model of being imitated. The Journal of Social Psychology, 116, 293-294.