Design a research study to answer one of the research questions below. Then answer the questions that follow about the study you designed.

Choose a research question (or come up with your own):

Is reading news sites more often related to being anxious more often? Does 30 minutes of exercise per day increase your mood? Do mindfulness exercises improve working memory skills? Consider what behavior(s) will be observed, how you can rule out alternative explanations of results, and how your observations can answer the question.

Which research question did you choose?

What is the best research design (correlational, experiment, quasi-experiment) to use for this research question?

What are the operational definitions in your study?

What behavior(s) that you observe will answer the research question (i.e., how will you know the answer from the behaviors you are observing)?

What are some alternative explanations of those behaviors (other than the factor listed in the research question)?