The first research topic that interests me the most is the issue of nature vs. nurture in psychology. This has been a heated debate in the world of psychology since the dawn of time, with the argument being whether people's innate qualities and personalities are planned out from birth or are they a collection of one's experiences throughout their lifetime? This would be a good research topic for several reasons, one being that for me psychology has always fascinated me so it would not be something that I would despise working on and revising for the 50th time later on in the semester. Also, I would be able to find satisfactory evidence for either side I could take in the debate, and therefore use that information to support my argument. Although I could take either side, the first thought I had when I first heard about this issue was that I strongly believed that nurture plays a more important role in forming people's personalities than nature does, thereby arguing that people's upbringing and childhood is what truly forms our perception of the world and how we act.
My next research topic would be whether or not the "technological era" that we've seen in recent years has crippled America's youth or has it started a new age of smarter and more social children. This topic interests me because I have been a witness to what technology can do on both sides of the table: I have friends who are addicted to online games and consequently do not spend enough time on their studies so their grades suffer, and on the other end I have friends who use technology to their advantage by multitasking and keeping up-to-date with necessary things. My argument for this topic would be that technology is indeed crippling America's youth because it is all coming so fast we, as a society, do not know how to adapt yet.
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