This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CPSYC 2016: 4th International Congress on Clinical and Counselling Psychology Categorisation and Reading Comprehension in Social-Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences Eva Stranovská a , Dáša Munková a , Silvia Hvozdíková a * * Corresponding author: Silvia Hvozdíková, shvozdikova@ukf.sk a Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia Abstract The focus of the study was to examine categorisation or cognitive structuration of foreign language information in the process of foreign language reading and its relation to comprehension of such information. The emphasis is laid on categorisation and the process of reading comprehension and its dependency to cognitive-social and behavioural scienses represented by the study programmes of the research participants and the combination of the study programmes. The research was carried out at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra at the individual faculties/schools: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Facutly of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Central European Studies. The selected students studied English language as an optional subject. The research methods used in the current research study were as follows: PNS Scale (Thomson et al., 2001), test of foreign language competence (based on ISED – the level of language proficiency B1/B2). Results of the research showed dependency of foreign language reading comprehension on desire for structure of the students of behavioural sciences compared to the students of other study programmes from the other examined faculties. © 2016 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk Keywords: Categorisation, reading comprehension, foreign language competence. 1. Introduction Process of categorisation and cognitive structuration together with closely related constructs are the cores of many social-cognitive and personality centred psychologists (Grežo, Sarmány-Schuller, 2015 Sarmány-Schuller, 2014, Prokopčáková, 2015, Sollár, Turzáková, 2014, Stangor, 2000, and others). They direct their research mainly in examining correlations and personal determinants, which effect preferable ways of categorisation, information processing, decision-making processes coping strategies, etc. Contemporary foreign language research in reading comprehension examines mainly http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2016.05.02.8