Cognitive Science? Psychology?

clapyourfeet
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:00:34 +0000

The major requirements are very different. While psychology is very broad in studying different aspects of human metal processes and behavior, cognitive science has emphasis in understanding the nature of mind, and somewhat puts behavior on the backburner. Psychology, the major, is pretty straightforward, you take a lot of psychology classes, Cognitive Science on the other hand is interdisciplinary, many classes from many different departments.
In terms of being more useful in the workplace it seems like the computer science and linguistics background that cognitive science requires gives a fairly noticeable gain in starting income for graduates.
Look at what past graduates have done in either major.