Beyond the Classroom

Take your Mount psychology major beyond the classroom!

Applying Your Knowledge

All psychology majors choose, conduct and present a data-based senior research project. Mount students have made presentations at the Eastern Psychological Association annual meeting and have conducted senior projects such as:

• Creative thinking in autistic, mentally retarded and normal children and adults
• Gender, personal space boundaries and comfort level
• Matrilineal advantage in grandparent-grandchild relationships
• One-year anniversary effects of September 11, 2001
• Parenting styles and perceptions of eating in high school females with eating disordered behavior
• Acetylcholine release in the hippocampus and striatum during place learning

On Campus

• Psi Chi Honor Society
• Research Assistantships

Recent Internships

• Adams County Children and Youth Services
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Frederick
• Community Services for Autistic Children
• Heartly House Women’s Shelter
• The Jefferson School
• Legg Mason
• Maryland School for the Deaf
• Philhaven Psychiatric Institute
• Shephard Pratt Psychiatric Hospital
• Up County Family Center