How to Design a Study

With each choice, make sure you justify why you chose it!!

Experiment

Participants (who, why and sampling method)

Aim 

Hypothesis (and null hypothesis)

Variables (IV and DV)

Design (e.g. independent groups...)

Materials

Procedure

Analysis (type of data collected, which inferential test?)

Ethics

Observation

What? (what are you going to measure?)

Participants (who, why and sampling method)

Where? (lab or field?)

Covert or overt?

Hypothesis (and null hypothesis)

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