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Assignment:

Your school has decided to carry out three areas of research:

• Does the time your school starts affect student health?
• Does exercise help students to remember more information?
• Does meditation help students to manage stress?

For each research question:

1. How would you operationalize the IV and the DV?
2. What would an independent samples design look like for this question?
3. What would a repeated measures design look like for this question?
4. If you were going to use a matched pairs design, which variables do you think would be the most important to consider?

For each of the following news headlines, do you think that the findings are causal or simply correlational in nature? How do you think that the research would have been done?

1. Cell phones disrupt teen sleep.
2. Using Wash your Hands signs in public bathrooms increases the number of hand washers!
3. Men who are distracted by a beautiful woman are more likely to take financial risks.
4. Study suggests attending religious services sharply cuts the risk of death