Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Research Paper Topic ( Brainstorming) Blog # 3


I’m excited to start this research topic . All of the topics on the “Research paper ideas “ handout seemed very interesting . But the two topics that stuck out to me the most was Idea number 6 ; Portraying Robots ( or human clones) in film and idea number 3 ; Evolutionary Psychology and everyday life . Portraying Robots in film caught my attention because I find it very fascinating how complex these robots or machines are. I would love to further my knowledge on robots. Also this research topic will help me get an idea on what the future looks like. It gives me mix feelings, in being worried or excited on how much electronics is going to take over everything. We are only getting a snippet of how robots will work right now, if I do this research topic I would have a good idea on how the future will really look like. Evolutionary Psychology and everyday life really caught my eye, just for the simple fact I am a psychology major and I’ve never heard about “evolutionary psychology” till this semester.  I would really enjoy doing this topic because I feel that is really important how much science and certainty is in psychology that people don’t notice. This topic would definitely further my knowledge in my life long future career, and also get better aspects on the controversies that lie under psychology. I have so much ideas, opinions and questions that I would love to put all in paper. Just by talking about it I get excited, this idea will be a good one for me. Well both are pretty interesting; this will be a tough one.
               I decided to do topic number 2  ; “Evolutionary psychology and everyday life“ it just makes sense for me to stick to the topic I am majoring in and I have  major connection with . Now the questions I can answers under this topic is a tough one to answer but I narrowed it down to two. The Attraction theory and Altruism, Altruism because I totally believe in the ideas that come with altruism , even though I am a little skeptical with some ideas under Altruism , this is an amazing theory that when we look more in depth to it we can understand how it works in today’s world . Now “Attraction theory “this one just grabbed my brain. I have been reading about attraction and how it works in the world for about 3 or more years now. It’s a theory I truly believe in, and for the last past year I’ve been trying to bring it out to my friends, family and even strangers! But I feel like this research paper will help me bring it out and even help me understand it way more then I already do, and go in to different aspects under attraction with evolutionary psychology .

2 comments:

  1. All right, if you do want to work on attraction theory, look up this term in the Gale Virtual Reference Library. It's an established body of research from social psychology NOT a pop psychology kind of idea. For your paper, after describing an area of current attraction theory, you would find two studies using a perspective from evolutionary psychology. What kinds of questions do EP researchers add? What does the perspective from evolution add or explain (and is it valid or not)? You might also use 'the Beauty Goodness myth' as a research term. Why do we think beautiful people are good (and why does Hollywood and children's stories use this myth?) Working on robotics with a particular film in mind is probably easier. It's time to narrow and focus your research topic over the next few days. Hope this helps! --Prof. Dragan

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