Izawa, Chizuko 1934-

PERSONAL:

Born April 15, 1934, in Tokushima, Japan; naturalized U.S. citizen; daughter of Yuzo (in agriculture) and Chikano (in agriculture) Izawa; married Robert G. Hayden (a university professor), July 15, 1973; children: Althea J.E.K. Education: University of Tokyo, B.A., 1960; Stanford University, M.A., 1962, Ph.D., 1965; University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral study, 1967-68.

CAREER:

San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, assistant professor of psychology, 1965-67; State University of New York at Buffalo, assistant professor of psychology, 1968-72; Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, associate professor, 1972-80, professor of psychology, 1980-2001, Japanese translator for Howard Tilton Library Special Collections, beginning 1981, founder and chair of Japan-Tulane Friendship Award, 1982-2001; retired, 2001. University of Tsukuba, visiting overseas scientist, 2001; Catholic University of America, visiting scholar, 2005-06; conference presenter and chair; public speaker on the society, culture, geography, and children of Japan; guest on local media programs.

MEMBER:

International Council of Psychologists, American Psychological Association (fellow), American Psychological Society (charter fellow), Asian American Psychological Association, Psychonomic Society, Psychometric Society, American Association of University Professors, Society for Mathematical Psychology, Society for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Society for Cross-Cultural Research, Japanese Psychological Association, Eastern Psychological Association, Midwestern Psychological Association, Southeastern Psychological Association (member-at-large of executive committee, 1998-2001), Southwestern Psychological Association (member of executive council, 1978-80), Western Psychological Association (fellow), Southeastern Workers in Memory (president, 1974-75), Sigma Xi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grants from National Institute of Mental Health, Friends of Japan, Japan Foundation, Flowerree Foundation, Japanese Ministry of Education, Japanese Association of Education, and Aron Foundation Endowment.

WRITINGS:

(Editor and contributor) Current Issues in Cognitive Processes: The Tulane Flowerree Symposium on Cognition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 1989.

(Editor and contributor) Cognitive Psychology Applied, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 1993.

(Editor and contributor) On Human Memory: Evolution, Progress, and Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Atkinson-Shiffren Model, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 1999.

(Editor, with N. Ohta, and contributor) Human Learning and Memory: Advances in Theory and Application, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 2005.

Contributor to books, including From Learning Processes to Cognitive Processes: Essays in Honor of William K. Estes, Volume 2, edited by A.F. Healy, S. Kosslyn, and R.M. Shiffrin, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Mahwah, NJ), 1992. Contributor to periodicals, including Journal of General Psychology, Psychologia, Journal of Asian Studies, Psychology World, American Journal of Psychology, Contemporary Psychology, Australian Journal of Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychological Reports, and Japanese Psychological Research.

SIDELIGHTS:

Chizuko Izawa told CA: "We humans are social beings who both need and enjoy interactions with others. In science, opinions on and interpretations of even the same set of data can be diverse, and interactions are an essential means to advance knowledge. This necessity is the backbone of my writing. I find it very gratifying when a text succeeds in conveying the precise meaning it is intended to convey. Most significantly, writing sharpens one's own thinking on the issues being examined. It greatly helps to clarify and disentangle complicated issues. It is one of the meaningful and enjoyable products of any science. Of course, recognition by one's peers for one's written word is no small reward."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Journal of Psychology, winter, 2000, Nelson Cowen, Jeffrey N. Rouder, and Michael Stadler, review of On Human Memory: Evolution, Progress, and Reflections on the 30th Anniversary of the Atkinson-Shiffren Model, pp. 639-648.