Do these sound like good research ideas?

Question

1) I have some interest in criminal psychology. My basic idea is that no one is essentially born "bad" nor is there a gene for evil and the criminal mindset is thus the result of traumatic experiences and/or faulty parenting. I'm looking to research further into this and applications of reversing the process to improve the criminal justice system.
2) Educational Psychology. Have you ever noticed that if you set a far off goal, the nearer ones come much faster? ie If you want to run 10 minutes, it takes forever, but if you want to run 30 minutes, that 10 minutes appears to come much faster. Well my idea for the application of that idea in education is to set up an experiment in which the subjects are "taught" various things on an empirical scale (such as math, harder things being built off the earlier subjects). A control group is tested after each lesson, and the test group is tested after on the first subjects after everything is taught. According to my theory (outta room)

Sorry I ran out of room. But yeah Im just a freshman, Ive only taken gen psych and developmental psych, so I still have a long way to go, but its good to get an early start i suppose =). Another more minor idea i had was to test whether stimulus intensity has an effect on the intensity/quickness to learn a conditioned response

Sorry, again I ran out of room, but for the second one, im actually talking about i guess molding smaller goals into bigger ones, the opposite process of what youre talking about lol. One thing I've taken note of is how after doing calculus two (which is essentially different subject) my abilities to perform calculus 1 is MUCH better, and grad students seem perfect at calculus subject. Thus what if this could be implemented into the education system to stop the pass/fail system at every stage and actually well teach everything then test each stage, of course this would allow things to be done much more efficiently and quickly. Ie we teach calculus to 9th graders to ensure they are great at algebra (just a general example, 9th graders might not even have the mental capacity, but just an example)

Answer 1

Congratulations on a well-thought out research proposal. Either of the two would make great contribution to mankind. I hope to read it online soon!

Answer 2

I like the first one. I don't think there's a gene for evil, but there are genes for mental illnesses. This would certainly be testable. Maybe with twins or at least separately raised siblings.
The second one has been done to death. Everyone knows to break a large goal into smaller steps.

Answer 3

All I can say is, Good Luck. These seem really hard topics do do a research on. I remember I was thinking about doing my research on the first one but I couldn't come up with really good reseach. Idk maybe I'm just a bad researcher.