Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

About this course

Psychological and behavioural sciences at Cambridge offers an approach to the study of mind, brain and behaviour that is broader and more genuinely interdisciplinary than most psychology degrees. Rather than teaching psychology as a single discipline with a fixed canon, Cambridge situates it within the wider context of the behavioural sciences, drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, social science, linguistics and biology to address fundamental questions about how people think, feel, act and interact. This three-year full-time programme expects rigorous intellectual engagement and develops both empirical and theoretical skills at a demanding level. You will study cognitive psychology, covering perception, attention, memory and language, alongside social psychology, developmental psychology and the biological bases of behaviour. The behavioural sciences framing means you will also e

Where its graduates go

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• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →
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