Problem: Lucy is a psychology student who wants to know whether relaxation training will improve her anxiety during exams (i.e., test anxiety). She decides to conduct some research to find out if relaxation training decreases test anxiety.
Required:
Use the Decision Making Framework guidelines from Week 12 to explain your answers.
a) Name and describe the design Lucy should use?
b) Justify your choice of design.
c) Who are the participants, how many are there, how will they be recruited?
d) What will participants do? Describe the procedure, instruments, etc.
e) Thinking about the different types of validity, what aspects of your design could negatively impact the validity of the study? Which type(s) of validity is(are) impacted and how?
f) What control techniques could you use? Explain what you expect these to achieve