Can someone help me with a psychology research topic...Please?

[darling]

I'm doing research methods in experimental psychology and I'm just not interested in it. I need the course though. I need to develop a research project and I can't think of one. Something needs to be consistent, manipulated and have a measurable outcome. Like, thinking through a specific task improves after listening to Beethoven. Task remains consistent and participants listen to Beethoven and some to other music and some in silence. Music changes. But that's out of the text...I need something easy a lay person can do.

There was another one measuring the effects of stress on memory in college students.

Please help...
I have acces to kids in care throguh work. Something to do with self-esteem maybe.

I work downtown, maybe...link between homelessness and the onset of mental illness

something on facebook...

I need help choosing something and putting the idea together.

[euclydon]

Why make research on what you barely know about. It's pure waste of time!

[chana devora]

Ok,how about memory: Do people remember better with pictures or with words? Make up flash cards with pictures, then flash cards with words, show them to your subjects, one after the other, then have them write down what cards they remember of the picture cards, and then of the word cards.

[BillyTheKid]

The effects on self-esteem when children are told that they have the disorder ADD?

It seems to be the latest fad so it would be relevant.

The self-esteem of non-sexually active teens vs active teens?

It's out of control, so relevant.

Easier would be give a test of some nature to kids not diag'ed with ADD, kids that are and are on drugs for it, kids that are and take no drugs and measure the difference. You could do the same for the teens looking for a correlation between activeness and reading comprehension, for instance.

[deemee]

Hi - for a small research project in college, i gave people a list of words - some abstract and some that were concrete and had them study them for 3 minutes. Then, i had them write down as many as they could remember. The hypothesis is that people recall words/information better if it is concrete (table, chair, monkey) as opposed to abstract (large, fast, busy). Lots of research on it. Lots of implications, too. Good Luck!