Assignment: Developmental Research
Imagine that your Learning Team has received funding to study changes in sexual attitudes over time. Your task is to design a developmental research study to investigate this issue. Your team will outline one of the following: cross-sectional study, longitudinal study or sequential study. Identify which type of design your team decided to use and explain why you decided on this method. Complete the table below and submit it to your instructor.
Type of design (cross-sectional, longitudinal or sequential) and rational for selecting this type of design
Propose a research hypothesis and a null hypothesis.
Who will your participants be? How will you recruit them? What concerns do you have in selecting your participants? How do you know your participants are representative of the population?
Describe the research method. What will you do? What instruments will you use to measure sexual attitudes?
Identify your independent and dependent variables.