SCENARIO 1 EXAMPLE: Does public speaking stress you out? How much does it stress you out? Many researchers are interested in studying how people respond to stressful social situations. One study brought participants into a laboratory, measured their cortisol (stress hormone) levels when they first arrived, made them give a speech in front of a group of strangers with only 5 minutes to prepare, and then measured their cortisol levels again to see if they had changed.

SCENARIO 2 EXAMPLE: Researchers are interested in seeing how sitting for long periods of time can influence cardiovascular health. They ask people how many hours per day they sit, and then they measure their blood pressure to see if they are associated. They expect that as hours spent sitting increases, blood pressure will also increase.

SCENARIO 3 EXAMPLE: A 5th grade school teacher believes that she has an exceptionally gifted group of students in her class this year. She learns that the national average score on the 5th grade annual test is 150, with a standard deviation of 30. She wants to compare her student's scores to the national average.

QUESTION 1:

Come up with your own study idea, just like the scenarios you see above. Explain the study (just like in scenarios above), and then tell me the following information for your study. Make sure this is your own original study idea!

DV:

Null Hypothesis:

Alternative Hypothesis:

Type of Analysis you would use to test the hypothesis in your study:

QUESTION 2:

Now, pretend you actually ran the study you came up with. Make up the results (the test statistic values, means and SDs), and write up the results as you would see them in an APA style research paper.