Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law

26 - Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences

42. - Psychology

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the scientific study of the behaviour of individuals, independently or collectively, and the physical and environmental bases of mental, emotional, and neurological activity.

42.03 - Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.0301.

42.0301 - Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the mechanisms and processes of learning and thinking, and associated information encoding, decoding, processing and transmitting systems. These programs include courses in theories of cognition and intelligence; studies of cognitive processes such as memory, sensation, perception, pattern recognition, problem solving, and conceptual thinking; cybernetics; psycholinguistics; and the study of biological and social communications mechanisms and processes.

• Example Program Names:

  • Cognitive and motivational psychology
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Psycholinguistics

• Exclusion

  • Education of individuals with speech or language impairments(13.1012)
  • Linguistics(16.0102)
  • Cognitive science(30.2501)
  • Neuropsychology(42.1101)