About the Course

Foundations of Psychology

Psychology, the science of behavior and mental processes, systematically explores phenomena as diverse as phantom limbs, sleep paralysis, false memories, and the bystander effect. This course explores major content domains in modern psychology, from the biological to the behavioral. You and your classmates will learn what constitutes an effective research design and analyze primitive and modern theories, and examine important topics in the field, including sensation and perception, social psychology, learning, memory, personality, and abnormal psychology. Each topic enables you to evaluate human thought and action through a different lens, continually demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of psychology. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to pose incisive questions and express sophisticated hypotheses around your own theories of human behavior.

Typical Class Size: 16-18
 

Course Overview

Summer Dates & Locations

Registration deadline:

Session One

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island
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Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799
Ursinus College
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
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Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
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Residential cost: $6,819
Commuter cost: $5,999
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
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Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799

Session Two

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island
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Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799
Ursinus College
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
-
Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, California
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Residential cost: $6,819
Commuter cost: $5,999
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, New York
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Residential cost: $6,599
Commuter cost: $5,799

Testing and Prerequisites

  Math Verbal
Required Level Not required CTY-Level
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Cost and Financial Aid

  • Tuition
    • Varies
  • Application fee
    • Nonrefundable Application Fee - $50 (Waived for financial aid applicants)
    • Nonrefundable International Fee - $250 (outside US only)

Financial Aid is available

We are committed to serving all talented youth regardless of financial circumstances. Financial assistance is available based on need.

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Course Materials

Please acquire all course materials by the course start date, unless noted as perishable. Items marked as “perishable” should not be acquired until the student needs them in the course. If you have questions about these materials or difficulty locating them, please contact [email protected].
 

Sample Reading

These titles have been featured in past sessions of the course, and may be included this summer. CTY provides students with all texts; no purchase is required.

  • Exploring Psychology, David Myers
  • Forty Studies That Changed Psychology, Roger Hock

About History and Social Science at CTY

Enhance your critical thinking skills

Expand your ability to reason through difficult problems by taking one of our philosophy or logic classes. Learn how to craft strong and clear arguments in Big Questions, or explore the techniques of logic that lawyers, doctors, and mathematicians utilize to be successful in their fields in Logic: Principles of Reasoning.

Explore social justice in action

Develop knowledge and skills that will help you address issues of systemic inequality throughout the world. Engage in the study of those who worked within and outside of the legal system to effect monumental societal change in Great Cases: American Legal History.

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