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I think it is good for math students to have a cognitive psychology course. Foreign languages are often required. If a student knows how his mind works he would use it more efficiently. Insight, for example, occurs after a burst of gamma waves followed by alpha waves. In layman terms this means that a person stuck on a math problem usually gets an aha moment when he is relaxing. Opinions?

Edit. For example, I see many students now live-TeXing notes. That is a very inefficient way of learning.

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    I think the opposite is more relevant: why so many [not just cognitive] psychologists can't handle anything more sophisticated than a TV program2012-11-06

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Because it's not mathematics...

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Cognitive science is not of benefit only or mostly to mathematics, nor is it so critical that one cannot do without it. Therefore, it might be a general knowledge requirement, but would not be appropriate for a requirement for math.