Essay About Shyness

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The issue I will be examining is the most common cause of shyness and it is significant because shyness is like a handicap, it could develop into something worse. Shyness: when you feel uncomfortable around new people. Although, people severe shyness tend to have pessimistic views about themselves, they blush, fast beating heart, sweat, worry about others opinion, stomachache and avoid social interaction overall.

•The general area to be studied is the cause of shyness in people.

•The cause of shyness is important under the study of social psychology.

Background/Review of Literature

Shyness has many origins from people protecting themselves to having an inferiority complex. The background studies are not sufficient because sometimes the cause is not found and there is no true cure for …show more content…

The general methodology I chose is empiric because it requires observation, measuring and experimenting. Empiric would be the best because it would (probably) answer my question: what is the most common cause of shyness. I would test random people because with my friends I would not get work done. I would test the sample of data that people are extremely shy at a

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party to test if it is true for my test subjects. I would exclude children and adult from participating only because I would like to see the results in teenagers.

Design: I believe the stimulus would be sound because that is what causes most people to be frightened. I would like to test the setting, I would vary the noise level and setting. These would either confirm my hypothesis because it will reveal what the cause of my subjects shyness is or not. My hypothesis could be disconfirmed by my data by everyone of my subjects having a different origin for their shyness. I would need to control how many people to

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