Peter Frensch

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Peter A. Frensch (born April 1, 1956 in Koblenz ) is a German psychologist , professor of general psychology and vice president for research at the Humboldt University of Berlin .

Life

After studying electrical engineering in Darmstadt , Frensch studied psychology from 1979 to 1989 at the Universities of Trier and Yale with an M. Sc. and M. Phil and finally Ph.D. In 1984/85 he received a scholarship from the Fulbright program . After completing his doctorate , he was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Missouri , and in 1994 he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin . Since 1995 he has been working at the Humboldt University in Berlin, first as an honorary professor, and since 1998 as a professor of general psychology. From 2000 to 2002 Frensch was Managing Director of the Institute for Psychology, 2008/09 Vice Dean and since 2009 Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II. In November 2010 he was elected Vice President for Research at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and in January 2011 he took office started; he was the candidate for President Jan-Hendrik Olbertz .

Frensch is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science and has been President of the German Society for Psychology since 2010 . From 2000 to 2008 he was editor of Psychological Research . He has received five awards for his teaching at Humboldt University, most recently in 2008. Frensch's work focuses on implicit learning, cognitive skill acquisition and computer models of learning.

Fonts

  • together with PB Baltes and CC Bauer: Does a Structured Free Recall Intervention reduce the effect of racial biases in performance ratings and by what mechanism? In: Journal of Applied Psychology 92, 2007. pp. 151-164.
  • Implicit learning . In: J. Funke & PA Frensch (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of psychology . Volume cognitive psychology. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2006.
  • “Implicit” versus “explicit” learning. A useful or unnecessary distinction? In: C. Steinebach (ed.): Teaching and learning psychology. Contributions to university didactics . Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2005. pp. 23–34.
  • together with S.-C. Li and Ulman Lindenberger : Unifying cognitive aging. From neuromodulation to representation to cognition . In: Neurocomputing, 32-33, 879-890, 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the HU Berlin from November 30, 2010, accessed on December 3, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Frensch, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frensch, Peter A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz