Marcia K. Johnson (born 1943) is a Sterling Professor emeritus of Psychology at Yale University.
[3] While in her undergraduate program, she conducted her first psychological experiment, and found that people were better able to identify stimuli in an ambiguous environment if they had encoded the targets in terms of holistic schemas or concepts than if they had differentiated among them on the basis of specific features.
[4] She also received two research assistant opportunities with Lloyd Peterson and Kathleen Archibald, both afforded her with models of engaged academics.
[5] In graduate school she mentored with Leo Postman and Geoffrey Keppel at Berkeley's Institute of Human Learning, where she investigated organizational processes in memory.
[6] Her former graduate students include Shahin Hashtroudi, Frank Durso, Mary Ann Foley, Tracey Kahan, Stephen Lindsay, Elizabeth A. Phelps, Kristi Multhaup, Chad Dodson, Denise Evert, Mara Mather, John Reeder, Wil Cunningham, and Keith Lyle.