It was hard to imagine how I’d imbue myself into the psychological world during middle school, especially
when I was sensitive to others’ behaviors and expressions. When I grew into my
adolescence, I paid more attention to others’ thoughts and unintentional
actions. Sometimes, I would feel great magical when observing them. It was like
there were some other voices speaking from their inner hearts. Gradually, I
became fascinated with watching people’s unwitting behavior or, more precisely,
mediating on people’s inner feelings. Learning about and from individuals’
thoughts, actions and guidance drew me in more and more, so a brand new
study—psychology—came into my sight. Psychology functions closely in human
life. so this would achieve my yet unrealized wish: research topics about
psychology.
To begin with, I would start compiling
whatever psychological research I can find through sources like JSTOR and
LexisNexis, which are websites that are able to provide huge amount of
information and professional articles. While exploring each piece of research,
I hope to better understand how psychological phenomena are professionally
interpreted. Especially, I would pick out landmark studies and thinkers, like
Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud and John Watson in psychology history.
Specifically speaking, I happened to find the RAND website and found out the
standards of research. Using these case studies, I’ll try to see which did—and
did not—uphold modern standards of research. Then, with the help of listed
standards, I could compare the terms of standards with information of a
specific psychology research. In this way, advantages and disadvantages of the
research would naturally come out. In the next step, I could closely examine
the “disadvantages” and figure out methods of improving “disadvantages” in
amateur research reports and the methodologies of Chinese psychological
research. Lastly, I would present all what I find out in the blog and make an
overall summary.
In the following, I would attempt to
discover more crucial psychological research, especially ones of revolutionary
development of significance of time. As increasingly analyses of psychological
research are accumulated, I would be able to conclude the general principles of
psychological research. Then, with the aid of this generalization, I would be
more familiar with the study of psychology.
As a whole, psychology is one of the most
prevalent studies in the society. Psychological research would be a rudimentary
constituent of psychology. I assume that there are tons of people I don’t know
also have the identically strong interest towards psychology. They also would
like to learn lots of knowledge and do a satisfactory research. Maybe my
collection of psychological research would help them and make them better
understand the standards of psychology. In the unknown future, I hope my blog
could be one of most elementary references concerned psychology on the
Internet.
