you are a researcher. Design a study related to adolescent or emerging adult development. In doing so, address the following:

1. What is your research problem or question?
2. Are you seeking to establish cause and effect (an experimental design) or looking for a relationship between variables (a correlational design)?
3. What are your variables? Is there need to identify one as the independent variable and one as the dependent variable? If so, what are they? How are the variables operationally defined?
4. What is your hypothesis?
5. What major developmental design are you using? Note whether you are incorporating longitudinal, cross-sectional, cross-sequential, or cross-cultural methods.
6. Who is your population? How did you draw your sample? Will you have an experimental and control group? If so, how are subjects assigned to each group?
7. What data-gathering strategies and/or "treatment" will you use?
8. Describe, diagram, or explain your research procedure.
9. What do you think your results will be?
10. How did you minimize bias in your study?