Research Proposal

   In the process of thinking about a research topic, I wanted to find something that I have always been fascinated by.  That something pertains to the countless psychological thrillers that I have read or watched about.  When reading/watching these highly controversial psychological topics, I have realized how one can have concern over how some of these may be an intrusion to our own ethical standards.  In order to research this topic of ethics on psychopathology, I have to ask the following questions:

• How do the studies vary from the past to the present?
• Do the different fields of psychology have their own believes towards psychopathology?
• What are the ethical standards?
• What experiments have been done that break these standards?
• How have they broken them?
• Did they break the standards because they involved illegal experimentation?
• How does this idea of illegal experimentation play a bigger role?
• Does age affect when ethics are put into place?
• Does drug use change the ethical view?

"Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin." 

              -Ivan Pavlov