Undergraduate Students
Research Seminar Series
Each Psychology Area has a seminar lecture series.
Click here for the Master Research Seminar Calendar.
Academic Advising
For questions about studying Psychology at UCD as an undergraduate, visit Yellow Cluster Advising.
Five Major Areas of Emphasis
- Perception, Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience involves the study of awareness and thought, and includes topics such as perception, learning, memory and consciousness.
- Biological Psychology involves the study of the biological correlates of behavior and includes topics such as physiological psychology, sensory processes, health psychology and animal behavior.
- Social-Personality Psychology involves the study of the individual in his or her social environment and includes topics such as personality theory, abnormal psychology, individual differences, developmental psychology and social psychology.
- Developmental Psychology includes imaging the developing brain, children's psychological understanding or theory of mind (e.g., knowledge about people's thoughts, beliefs, desires and emotions), children’s language development and children's social development.
- Quantitative Psychology includes experimental design and the analysis of variance, regression analysis and multivariate analysis.