Bachelor and Master theses

Research in the Department of General Psychology and Methodology focuses on a wide range of basic psychological processes. Specifically, we are interested in processes that deal with attention, perception, action, and memory.

Core topics here are, for example, questions of action control (action-perception integration), selective attention (ignoring irrelevant information), memory (long-term and working memory), the biopsychology of stress, multisensory processing (object localization), and applied basic research (optimization of applied processes).

A qualification thesis in our department typically involves conducting an experiment, its analysis and, its interpretation. The results of this process are then written up in a thesis following the current university (see University Examination Office) and American Psychological Association requirements (see Guide).

In general, we would be delighted if you suggested your own (creative) experimental ideas for a qualification thesis. All theses can be supervised / written in German or English.

If you have a general interest in writing a thesis in our department, please contact our secretary's office.

If you would like to be supervised by Prof. Frings, please contact our secretary's office instead.

Specific theses currently offered in the department can be found in the following table.

Specific theses

TopicType of ThesisSupervisionShort description
Action controlBachelorThis project investigates which information is used by our cognitive system for actions. Specifically, the question is to clarified as to whether only pure perception is used for action or whether concepts are also relevant. The work includes the analysis and writing up of an experiment.
Action controlBachelorThis project investigates which information is used by our cognitive system for actions. Specifically, it’s about the question of how our goals influence which information from the environment we use for actions. The work includes the analysis and writing up of an experiment.
Selective attentionBachelorThis project investigates the conditions under which interference in the Flanker task can be reduced through foreknowledge about the distractors.
Action controlBachelorThis project aims to investigate the after-effects of free-choice response selection (free-choice tasks) on subsequent actions.