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My name is Erica Wager and I am a Psychology Instructor at Estrella Mountain Community College. After I finished work as a graduate student in the Cognition and Neural Systems program in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona I moved to Phoenix to begin teaching. I am currently working toward an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Innovation at Arizona State University. I have completed 36 units so far and have started my dissertation proposal under the mentorship of Dr. Eugene Judson.

I teach the following classes at Estrella Mountain Community College: 

PSY 101 - Introduction to Psychology

PSY 230 - Introduction to Statistics

PSY 240 - Developmental Psychology

PSY 266 - Abnormal Psychology

PSY 275 - Biological Psychology

PSY 290AB - Research Methods

I taught the following courses at University of Arizona: 

PSY 150 - Introduction to Psychology

PSY 478 - Sleep and Sleep Disorders

My research interests include educational outcomes of community college students in various learning environments, and sleep and cognition. I have also studied how young adults can counteract the effects of insufficient sleep on attention (e.g. while drowsy driving). I used behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques in my research under the mentorship of Dr. Paige Scalf in the Visual Cognition Lab and Dr. Richard Bootzin in the Sleep Research Lab at the University of Arizona.