Expertise

Child Development, Numerical Cognition, Mathematical Cognition

Biography

Dr. Sprague is a proud first-generation university graduate and alumna of Temple Psychology, where she earned her B.A. in 2018. More recently, she earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Florida State University. Her research has explored various aspects of numerical and mathematical cognition with participants from six months old to college-aged. Dr. Sprague is passionate about teaching and mentoring and is particularly enthusiastic about providing one-on-one help and guidance during her Student Hours. As a formerly-math-anxious statistics instructor and a scholar of mathematical thought, she hopes to foster comfortability, confidence, and enthusiasm among psychology students in statistics courses.

Selected Publications

• Sprague, L. (2025). Waiting for zero: Preschoolers' developing conceptualizations of zero and natural numbers (Publication No. 32116823) [Doctoral dissertation, Florida State University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
• Braithwaite, D. W., Sprague, L., & Siegler, R. S. (2022). Toward a unified theory of rational number arithmetic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 48(10), 1470.
• Braithwaite, D. W., & Sprague, L. (2021). Conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, and metacognition in routine and nonroutine problem solving. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13048.

Courses Taught

• Statistics for Psychology
• Advanced Undergraduate Statistics
• Introduction to Psychology