Assignment: Research Participation

Points Possible: 25

• Your task for this assignment is to participate in an online research study as a participant. These are actual studies so please approach this task in a serious manner and answer as truthfully/carefully as you can. Once you have completed your participation in the study, answer the questions below. This will count as your discussion board participation this week.
• This link has a number of studies to choose from various areas of psychology. Go to the site and choose a study to participate in: Hanover: Research ParticipantLinks to an external site.
• (If a particular study doesn't open or has expired, choose another one.)

https://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html#Mental%20HealthAddress the following questions

1. What is the name of the study?
2. Describe the steps taken to protect your rights as a research participant.
3. Did you feel that your rights were protected and that you were treated with proper respect? Why/why not (what did they do - or should have done?)
4. What type of study was it (experimental, correlational)? How do you know?
5. What is your impression of the study? (This can include what you see as strengths/weaknesses; whether the way the study was done (online v. in-person) affected how you acted or answered; what impressed you most about the experience).