Why Choose Psychology at Waterloo?
Psychology, the study of mind and behaviour, is one of today’s most exciting and rapidly advancing scientific frontiers. Students choose to study psychology because they find the discipline fascinating and they want to learn how and why they and others think and behave the way they do. The Psychology Department at the University of Waterloo is one the largest of its kind in the province of Ontario. Our faculty members have expertise in several of the subareas of Psychology including behavioural neuroscience, clinical, cognition, developmenal, industrial/organizational, and social. At UW you can explore a very broad range of topics such as: • how people see, hear, think, and solve problems • workings of memory and attention • acquisition of linguistic, cognitive, and social abilities in infants and young children • interpersonal and intergroup relations • communication and persuasion • cultural influences on behaviour • cognitive factors that influence reading disabilities and attention
