My senior year I wrote a paper on the processing of memory in the human brain. An incredible complex topic which required a lot more time and research than i had time do to for a high school course. However it was an interesting topic to me, i took the bulk of what i talked about from my psychology class. That class, was in fact the reason I chose the topic in the first place, Psychology was my favorite subject and I loved the class and loved learning about the different concepts so doing a research project on something I had already had some basic knowledge of seemed like a good idea. I utilized mostly internet sources- like i feel like most students do today. I used a few textbooks and psychology articles in my research as well. For the research I did there was a lot more information I could have gathered if i knew more so what i was looking for. As i researched I tried to stay away from things that just caught my interest and to go more for the basics of memory and its processing in the human brain instead of diving into too much detail. While that kept me on topic it also hindered the amount of information my paper actually contained. The length requirement also made it hard because with a topic like the human brain there is so much to cover and i just could not address everything in the span of a 20 page paper
As someone who loves learning new information I constantly find myself looking up stuff online.when there's something highly publicized in the media and i have no idea what it is i normally take a minute to ask someone or to look it up from a few different sources and make my own opinions. It may be something simple and i may just get the basic idea versus an complete understanding from start to finish but regardless its research.
We both share an interest in psychology. I took a psychology class my junior of high shcool and really enjoyed it. I even considered heading into psychology as my major in college. It's such a fascinating filed of study. Sadly, my teacher sucked and the class suffered a little from that fact. But I came out of theta class with a newfound interest in something I previously had no idea about. When I research I also find myself wanting to click on every interesting link I see. Its a case of curiosity, I guess. Your last paragraph accurately sums up my relationship with research and knowledge. I'm always on the hunt for new information and want to learn as much as I can. I also look to asking friends with better knowledge on the topics and researching them on the internet.
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