help! i cant think of a topic for my psychology project.?

Question

Well, it can be any subject relating to anthropology, sociology or psychology... But psychology interests me more. It is something we'll be working on all semester. I want something interesting and allows me a lot of room to do my own research like surveys, interviews, perhaps put a videotape together..

I am interested in dreams, but I am not sure what I can do with that topic.

ANY ideas would be greatly appreciated!! Also, what other methods of research could I use (primary research)

Thanx ♥

Answer 1

Hmmm, dreams are difficult to investigate without a good bit of equipment. I suppose you could put together a survey asking your participants things like: how often do you dream, how often do you remember your dreams, how vivid are your dreams, do you have more dreams or nightmares, how do nights you dream effect how alert you are in the day, etc.

Answer 2

I did a paper and project on astrology. People like to read what makes them feel good; use Freudian values, i.e. all actions being sexually motivated is a good sub-topic. I had test subjects read their daily astrology reports from various sources which appeared authentic yet in actuality I had fabricated; not randomly mind you. I used different languages, different sources, different time periods, etc. but in the end they were all identical. I then had the test subjects perform a self portrait in a controlled environment which included an anonymous auto-biography signed in their hand-writting using a psuedo-name. I then took the results explaining that a panel of astrology experts would evauluate their work. Abra-cadabra, presto chango....I circled an ear here and a nose there. Underlined a phrase or word and presented the subject with the 'experts' evaluation totally clinical and printed in thesis format. All the results were the same to each test subject; all test subjects offered money to meet the evaluators. Good luck; the fact that you're asking shows me that you'll make a fine clinician one day.

Answer 3

I don't know if this would apply, because it was used for sociology, not psychology, but here's the premise:

Stand outside a mall or grocery store with a roll of dimes. Each person that comes up, offer them a dime. See whether or not they take it. A lot of people won't. I never asked them why, but you could and see what motivates them not to take the dime and what motivates people to take the dime and form a theory on that. Hope it helps. =)

Answer 4

How about doing a study on what makes us take the time to ask and or answer questions on this site? What is it about not googling or typing key words in even here, but asking questions that have already been asked, all over again. I don't know how many replies you'd get though. Just my 2 scents.

Answer 5

Do Lucid dreaming. I did mine on that, and my teacher ate it up like a good little scholar.

You could cover what possible causes may be, medications and lucid dreaming, and bed-side visitations and lucid dreaming.

There's a bunch of information, and since it's not a perfect science, you have a lot of room to work.

Answer 6

How about doing it on Yahoo Answers. You could explore why people believe they can get good answers to their problems, by asking complete strangers, over the internet. Any would people give answers if there wasn't a point system.

Answer 7

I remember from my psychology classes a case where a man had a railroad spike drilled through his head, and he still was conscious, and walking --- too tripy.

Answer 8

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