Experimental

This provides a guideline that ensures that researchers minimize the amount of risk a study may impose to a participant. When planning a study, it is also important that each of the participants are provided with a sense of security and not placed at a disadvantage. When participants enter into a study, a level of trust is established, and their identities and the information they provide must be protected and never be used against them or exploited for any reason.

The study consisted of fifty, female, undergraduate college students. The ethnicities that were use for this study were African American, European, Asian, Hispanic, biracial, and a very slight percentage was categorized as other. The experiment would begin at 5:00pm everyday, for four weeks. One of the three groups was administered each day. The three groups were either peppermint, expectation, or control. Each participant was seated down, given an instruction sheet, a laptop, and was not able to see the other participants from their view.

In the study conducted by Kari Fossum, subjects were acquired from the Physiology 435 class at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after they each filled out a consent form. Participants were explained the nature of the procedures and questions and concerns were addressed by the researchers [4].

Informed consent forms will be used. These forms will contain information regarding the purpose of the study as well as the procedure being used.

102 students, 72 females, and 16 males and 14 who did not identify in upper division psychology classes from Missouri Southern State University participated in my experiment in return for extra credit. The age of the participants ranged from 19-74 years old with a mean of 25.53 (SD=9.06).

Each participant was presented a consent form electronically, and confidentiality was maintained throughout the process. (See Appendix A.) Steps taken to ensure the confidentiality of the respondents included assigning an alias name or number to each respondent requesting such, presenting the consent form that explained to participants that they had been selected to participate in the study, and minimizing “off the record” conversations. The only identification of individual interview data in reports was by subjects’ MASSP

A total of forty participants were used in the study. They had been recruited from friends and family and had not been offered any reward or incentives to take part in the study such as money, or credits for a course they were taking. Anyone who was either themselves a student of psychology or had knowledge of the experiment and its contents were not able to take part. An equal number of males and females took part in the experiment. The mean age of the participants involved was 39.3. The oldest was 65 and the youngest 21.

This chapter will discuss and outline the case study and the ethical consideration of the research. Research is a mutual undertaking between researchers and participants and therefore, must be handled with trust and fairmindedness. This is to “avoid harm to participants, ensure informed consent of participants, respect the privacy of participants and to avoid the use of deception” (Gray, 2011, p.73). Furthermore, consent must be given without coercion, meaning that participants fully understand the actions of the research and how the results will be used, Burns (2000).

Fraenkel, Wallen, and Hyun (2015) states “It is a fundamental responsibility of every researcher to do all in his or her power to ensure that participants in a research study are protected from physical or psychological harm, discomfort, or danger that may arise due to research procedures”.

Participants in the study will be one hundred undergraduate students at the University of Toronto St. George, who are enrolled in the course of Introduction to Psychology (PSY100H1). Those participants will be selected randomly and participation will be voluntary for course credit or exchange for $10.

Participants. 22 healthy adults (13 females, 22.90 ± 3.52 years), who were naïve from the purpose of the experiment, gave informed consent before the experiment to participate as paid volunteers.

Institutional consent from the California Coast University Institutional Review Board (IRB) will be obtained prior to conducting the proposed research. To obtain institutional consent, it will be made clear to the participants that their participation is voluntary and they may withdraw at any stage of the research. The possible subjects will be informed via an e-mail about the research and protocols in order to make an informed decision as to whether or not to participate in the research as subjects. The informed consent (Appendix #) is conveyed in understandable language and available both in English and Spanish given that for some participants English is their second language. The purpose of the inform consent will be to

There are different types of surveys can be used. You could use electronic survey, email survey, web survey or even dual-media survey. Interview guides could be done by telephone or a focus group of some sort. If I had to choose on one I think I would go with an electronic survey. I would imagine I could get more data back in mass than looking at talking to so many people each day which would take longer to get your results. So to me I would get my data a lot faster by going through the electronic way. So advantage for me going this way with electronic version would be I could get my results faster. The disadvantage to using electronic version would be they would not be able to provide feedback or follow on questions. If I was to interview

This study consisted of seventy-one male in introductory psychology class, experimenter, and a girl hired for the experiment (Festinger & Carlsmith, 1959). Participant arrived in the secretary office, and was directed to the lab. The first task consisted of using one hand to put twelve spools on a tray, empty the tray and refill the tray for half hour. Later, the participant constantly quarter turns the peg using one hand for half hour. While the participant performed the tedious task, the experimenter noted observations. The experimenter was not recording; the participant performed tedious task to generate negative opinion. Once both of the tasks were completed the experimenter began describing the true nature of the study. There were two groups; one group got no introduction or information about the experiment, meanwhile, the other

Participants for this experiment included 194 students at UCF who are enrolled in PSY 3213 Research Methods in Psychology, roughly ages 18-22.