Faculty

Erica H. Wojcik

Associate Professor of Psychology   

Office: Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences
Phone: 518-580-8306
Email: ewojcik@skidmore.edu

Visit Erica's research website

Education:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia
• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• M. S., University of Wisconsin-Madison
• B. A., Princeton University

Courses:

• SSP 100 The Nature/Nurture Myth: What Really Makes Us Who We Are
• PS 202 Statistics and Research Methods I
• PS 206 Developmental Psychology
• PS 303 Statistics and Research Methods II
• PS 338 Language Development
• PS 352 Meeting of the Minds – Free Will
• ID 310 Language and Thought
• ID 351 The Limits of Knowing

Research interests:

• Language acquisition: How do infants and toddlers learn the sounds, words, and grammar of their native language(s)?
• Ecological approaches to development: How can we use naturalistic observation to help us understand learning in the real world?
• Early word learning: How do toddlers learn the meanings of their first words?
• Semantic knowledge: How do young children learn about the world, and how do they organize that information in their minds?
• Statistical learning: How do infants, toddlers and adults use patterns in the world around them to learn about language, objects, and events?

Representative publications:

• Wilton, L.S., Wojcik, E.H., Weirdsma, A*., and Modesti, G.* (2026). How do Multiracial Parents Socialize Their Children Around Race and Ethnicity? Self & Identity
• Wojcik, E.H. & Goulding, S.* (2024). Distribution of words across the first years of life:  A longitudinal analysis of everyday language input to three English-learning infants. Infancy. 
• Wojcik, E. H., Pierce, M. C*., Stevens, G.*, & Goulding, S. J.* (2024). Referent-oriented interactions in infancy: A naturalistic, longitudinal case study from an English-speaking household. Infant Behavior and Development, 74, 101911.
• Casey K.*, Potter, C.E., Lew-Williams, C., & Wojcik, E.H. (2024). Moving beyond “nouns in the lab”: Using naturalistic data to understand why infants’ first words include uh-oh and hi. Developmental Science
• Wojcik., E.H., Zettersten, M., Benitez, V. B. (2022). The map trap: Why and how word learning research should move beyond mapping. WIREs Cognitive Science.
• Wojcik, E.H. (2017). The Development of Lexical–Semantic Networks in Infants and Toddlers. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 34-38.

Fun fact:

Wrote the championship puzzle for Lollapuzzoola 2023, a crossword puzzle tournament in NYC.