🧠 majoring in COGNITIVE SCIENCE at uc berkeley | what it is + tips for success! 

Hi everyone!! Thank you for watching :)) lmk down here if you have any questions/want to know more, i honestly could talk about this major forever and ever hahaha. hope y’all are doing okay in school/work/life and staying safe wherever you are ❤️❤️

I just discovered what cognitive science was and it's literally everything I love in one major 😭 I'm happy lol

I remember being frustrated that I can't study bio, psychology, computer science, neuroscience,and philosophy at the same time lol. And then I found out that Cognitive science is a full package! Also it gives a lot of opportunities, even in art? I'm sold. Thank you for the video, its so much helpful! Especially for seniors high school students like me. Wish you successful studies and staying healthy for everyone!:)

The way you described cognitive science made me my ADHD brain so excited

I'm a Psychology major, and 90% of this video is what I'm already studying. I decided to double major in Neuroscience so I could fully understand human behaviour from a biological perspective. If I want to go into tech, I have the option. I'm currently working in clinical research, but I'm heavily interested in law. Great video!

Hey thanks for making this video! I've been interested in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, programming and anthropology for years until I realized that they all merged in one field. I was so excited to know about this. I'm hoping to do my masters in cognitive science soon!

This video was so informative and super easy to watch because your personality is just so bubbly and humorous. Thank you for existing here on RU-vid! Haha I look forward to watching more of your videos!

I love the interdisciplinary components of this major! Please make more videos on Cognitive Science!

You re amazing. Im so happy to found you. Thank u so much for your channel!!

I was just researching Master's programs today and couldn't figure out what I wanted to pursue. This gave me a much clearer idea of Cognitive Science and it might just end up being my major. I'm currently working my way through a Bachelor's in Psychology already, but since there are so many directions and applications it has been hard to narrow down the specializations I'd want. Thank you for shining a light on this, it was super helpful.

Allow me to tell you, that the way you logical construct and explain the things, is one of the most wonderful trait in any human being. I have seen many content creators, not even achieving 40% of the ability like yours, to deliver information. So thank you very much.

Just enrolled in my first cogsci class at Cal, and this made me so excited for it! Thank you for the great video :)

this was so helpful! I was having trouble finding concrete applications for this major and this was straightforward and very informative. thank you so much!

I'm researching my options about universities and it cheered me up a little bit. Thank you

Hi Karen, I just found you, thank you for sharing this interesting major. Stay healthy and stay safe 🙌

SUCH A GOOD VIDEOOOOO ur content needs to be seen by more people they are so well made and so helpful!!!!!!!!!!!

You are so underrated!! Thank you so much for the vid, it was so helpful and YES ENTERTAINING FOR SUREE haha

Thank you for sharing your experiences! I just switched into cognitive science after changing my major from psychology+philosophy->psychology->social work->cogsci and I think it's the right fit. I appreciate the advice and feel more reassured now.

Thank you so much for this! There isn't a lot of resources on cognitive science, and surprisingly we're both Indonesians! Cognitive science seems very interesting, and I think I'll pursue it in the future:)

I’ve been trying to major in bio but it hasn’t been working out for me for some of the classes I get required to take and I just now found out about cognitive science and it’s literally what I’ve wanted to do. I wish I could’ve known about this sooner. I’m glad that I’m gonna make the decision to switch to cognitive science. It actually feels like something I will actually enjoy.

love the video, appreciate your work and I'm waiting to see a video about CogSci in jobs and carriers.

Thank you for validating all the reasons I gave my parents for majoring in cog sci 🙏

please make more videos on cognitive science, it will help a lot.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! The vdeo was fuuny, helpful and easy to understand!

This is very helpful video. thank you

Thank you! This video was really helpful (and entertaining lmao)

Thank you so much for this video!!! This major is super interesting to me but I’m having such a hard time explain it to my parents lol, this helped so much!

Hey, I wanna say thank you I was confused b/w choosing my major last year n one day I saw your video n found about cognitive science. In my bachelor, my major was computer science but I never enjoyed it, so I decided to apply for the master's in Germany with CogSci major n luckily I got an admission letter from a German institute💗💗

Thank you soo much! That was extremely helpful

Thank you so much for your video!

I just knew this major and the vid is so helpful!!!!! 😊 thx!!!

currently a soc major, thinking about doubling in cgs rn--found this video super helpful!!

Thank you so much! I'm 14 and really interested in this stuff so this video was really helpful

This is a great video!

i get the EXACT SAME questions from people and family when i tell them im a cog sci major at cal. thank you SO MUCH for this video!!

waaww!! how did you make CC? i bet you're sure tired to make CC. it was amazing. i'll give 10 for you!! you're the best people ive seen. keep it up! love you, karen!

wow this really was perfect timing! i’m a freshmen at berkeley and am so lost about what i want to major in. i am heavily considering cog sci and wanted more info on it and then bam! i see this video! thank you so much for the help and useful information!!

ahhh youre so pretty! love the videos karen

Hi! I just saw your cognitive science videos and wondered what it takes to get into this program? Is it very limited? Loved your video btw

This is so helpful! TY 😊🥰😊

Love this! Thanks for sharing. I’m applying to Columbia’s EdM program in Cognitive Science. Really hoping to take what I learn there to UC Berkeley for a PhD (a girl can dream) 😂 Great video!

I was doing my Psychology masters and recently shifted to CogSci masters out of interest for the subject. Idk, I'm internally freaking out about this major decision. Thanks for the boost up Karen.

hi I was RLY unsure about what I wanted to major in and this definitely reassured me to go for it! THANK YOU

I believe Cognitive Science will depend on what university you attend and it's program and overall school ranking. Someone who goes to Berkeley and studies Cognitive Science, can pretty much receive the benefit of the doubt, and land any job they want as long as they can learn another applicable discipline through a minor or self-study. This would not be the case for Cal State Fullerton or UT-Dallas student.

You are really a Professional, I would really like to work with you someday when i graduate.

Oh my god~ finally I found smne that I can totally relate to it. I'm also currently studying Bachelor degree in Cognitive Science~ and most ppl around me will gave that same reaction when I said what my major is like duuuhhh I'm so tired to explain all of it bcause it will always end up they think I'm taking psychology

As an aspiring Cogsci major at cal this helped so much thanks! wish me luck in cs61a

hii this video was extremely useful to me ( i am currently in my last year of highschool ). so i just wanted to know some of the classes you had taken throughout your college courses. it would be of grea t help!!

Your video is very informative and helpful... Thank you so much. Please can you tell me the topics in maths which I should cover in order to make the study of Cognitive psychology easy ?I didn't have maths in my intermediate or undergraduate.... only did maths upto class 10

cognitive science is a good course but its a shame that we don't have that in our country :

Boom! An Indonesian and also interested on the same major! Thankie, Kak!

I'm an incoming freshmen at uc berkeley and I'm seriously considering this major. Although I really do want to study something that involves the Humanities, so I was thinking to double major in English and Cognitive Science? Is that realistic or would it be incredibly difficult?

Currently I'm debating whether I should study Psychology or Artificial Intelligence. It's really hard for me to introspect and focus on which one intruiges me the most. Generally, I am not that technical, I feel like it's too difficult for me but idk.

whats the difference between a ba and bsc in cog sci?

Do you have some recommendations for the certifications, which is relevant to AI?

THANK YOU I'm into cogsci at USC, I''m just scared of the math and CS :(

Hi Karen, did you take Data Structure and AP Computer Science in high school?

COOL !!!

can I have a job like software engineer with cog sci?

I learned about this field now and I'm at the end of my 3rd year welp

Yes you did 🙂

LOL the skit in the beginning, so cute

here's the prob , how do I tell coalition app or common app that I wanna go to CogSci? it only has other majors like psy, computer science , neuroscience and bluh bluh . how do I choose it ? PLZ ANSWER I REALLY NEED TO KNOW THE WAY. IM FILLING MY APPS

Hi Karen, did you take Calculus in high school?

Any books you recommend?

Are there any MS programs in CogSci at Berkeley???

Hi Karen, I am a prospective student at the University of Toronto and I am going to major in Cognitive Science as well. Thank you so much for making this video!

Thank you for the information Karen! I want to study Cognitive Sciences as a graduate in USA but I do not know which school is best. Which schools would you recommend me to include on my search? Any information you share will be very valuable for me :)

those first 20 seconds have never been more relatable...

I daughter is keen in brain sciences

Does ic berkely cogsci accept trandfer student?

If I'm interested in Computer Science and languages mostly then is congitive science for me? I still can't choose...

can you recommend some cognitive science/neuroscience-oriented clubs or student organizations at UC Berkeley? I want to join some to gain experience and see if cog sci is what I want to do, but I haven't heard of a ton of them on campus :))

Wish I could’ve decided to major in cogsci earlier :/

Hey thanks alot 👍

thank u so much for this video 🤍

have you join the uc berkeley streaker .i come from hong kong

ok a dumb question, do you have to be good at maths and learning tech for cog sci?

Hello.. actually I wanted to know about best universities in usa for phd in fields related to cognitive science?

can i minor in this?

Can you major in cognitive science and minor in CS at CAL?

Can you start your own business with this major ?

Does the major matter when applying for uc colleges?

Is it a good idea to study Cognitive Science for Master's while having studied Computer engineering for my Bachelor's? 😢 Would I miss much??

Do you need physics or computer science knowledge for this program?

hahhaahah im a linguistics student and every time when someone asks me what my major is, the same thing happens lol

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What will be a great High school student profile, Extra carriculars to get admission into Cognitive science.

Lol nice name.Karen and Supandi

Bruh I thought you were Filipino at first

Is there a lot of math involved lol

Your "oh" sound, with its head gesture screams Indonesian Parents.. AHAHAHA

I gotta be a little blunt... :( Even as someone who dabbles in cognitive science topics, this is actually quite embarrassing.... everything from the way you paint cogsci major as some kinda back-up option for underachieving compsci major dropouts, to the utterly shallow understanding you seem to have about the field. What you have presented in this video is most APPLIED cognitive science. In the grand scheme of cogsci, those things could not be more trivial. I know Berkeley's reputation in cogsci reflects its faculty/grad school population, but even that said.... you're really putting your school name to shame here. For those interested, what cognitive science is REALLY about... The actual SCIENCE of cognitive science is to ultimately an effort to bridge the gap of understanding between the brain and the mind, one that historically (and explicitly) dates back to one of the greatest philosophers/mathematicians Descartes' mind-body problem (aka Cartesian dualism). It carves very, very deep into the questions of epistemology and the nature of reality and perception of it, whose fundamentality rivals those profound questions of physics. The physical reductionist doctrine (i.e. to reduce the functional properties of the mind to the physical matter) is built right into the core tenets and endeavors of cognitive science... that's what sets it apart from strict Fodorian functionalist disciplines (old school cognitive psychology) or other fields of psychology that don't attempt at all to ground the understanding of the mind in terms of physical processes. 1:56 So here when you talk about about cogsci as being "macro"... you seem to be deeply confused... though I feel that maybe you were thinking cognitive systems or something. Comparing cogsci and general psyc is just not apt (psyc is way too general of a field). If what you meant was cogsci vs. cogpsy, which both approach with "primitive" or "building blocks/processes" of cognition (thus inevitably shares some boundaries with perception studies in neuroscience), the first distinction is one that I mentioned before (cogpsy mostly wanting to stay at the level of functionalism while cogsci tries to integrate different Marr's levels) and the second is the ways the disciplines balance experiment vs. modeling. Cogpsy is heavily experiment-driven field, with the theory aspect often times discussed in loose, handwavy ways, in comparison to cognitive scientists who build rigorous computational models to complement their theories (and experiments to align the models with empirical data, though to a lesser extent). And the reason why computational models are often more necessary for cognitive scientists than cognitive psychologists is specifically because their theories often attempt to integrate diff levels thus need to capture complexity of the more physical, lower-level systems, from which more conscious cognition emerges. Also, you brought up behaviorism but never addressed why.. there's a much greater lesson from that chapter of history of psychology. Yes I know, in psyc101 they're often quick to bash the older "failed" attempts of behaviorism from early 1900s, but they were actually just trying to be good empiricist, backed by logical positivism. It was actually a much needed response to Freudian types of unfalsifiable introspective psychoanalytics and "psychology" reigning academia at the time.