Minor Psychology of Cognition, Development, and Performance

ECTS: 30
Code: MPCDP30

Description

This University Minor focuses on human information processing with regard to acquiring competences, in a developmental context.

Knowledge about perception, attention, and information processing are crucial for performance. How these work and interact are topics that the courses in the minor deal with.

Other topics are: how mental performance changes over time, e.g., as a result of ageing, how mental condition and goals affect performance, in particular in applied fields such as sports and traffic psychology. Task analysis and knowledge on how human error occurs, increase understanding of mental processes and can help to improve performance and safety.

In this minor you will:

• learn about psychological theories, and explain the functioning of the human information processing system in terms of cognitive theories
• comprehend how healthy people function in daily life and how performance and safety can be improved in applied settings such as sports and traffic
• understand the effects of an ageing brain on performance and propose potential countermeasures

This minor is in particular focussed on students with an interest in functions of the brain/cognitive psychology, such as Biology/LST and AI students. Without basic knowledge of biology/cognitive/neuropsychology this minor has been shown to be difficult to complete, and therefore students with a broader interest in psychology, in particular social psychology, are advised to look at the other minor we offer: Psychology in Society.