Psychology Assignment Help| Nature-Based Interaction on Emotional Well-being
In this psychology assignment, you will address the need for rigorous experimental research that can evaluate the impact of nature-based interaction on one well-defined domain of children’s mental health. For this assignment, students must select from one of the following three domains: (i) Emotional Wellbeing, (ii) Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptom, or (iii) Self-Esteem and answer the following questions:
1. Provide a brief (no more than 1.5 pages) critical overview of relevant current research. In this overview, please cite at least three pieces of original research2 and aim to address the following issues with regarding each:
a. What research methods were used?
b. What was found?
c. What (if any) is the key limitation of the research? Ideally, your answer to this question will be an integrated review (in the style that you would find in the introduction of a journal article), rather than three discrete paragraphs, each dedicated to a single study.
2. In one sentence, specify a research question for your experiment.
3. Use your research question to develop a (i.e., ONE) hypothesis for your research.
4. What is your IV (and what are its levels)? What is your DV? How will you operationally define these variables (i.e., how will you measure or manipulate them?), and what will the resultant data look like (i.e., will it be nominal data or Interval data?) If your operational definitions are inspired by previous research, be sure to include the appropriate citations.
5. Who are the proposed participants for your research? In your answer, please define the population, and explain how you will recruit from this population and specify any one strength and one limitation of your chosen recruitment strategy. Also specify how large the sample is required to be and justify this decision using a priori power analysis.
6. Describe, in a systematic fashion, the procedure for your experiment. In your answer, describe how participants will be assigned to levels of your IV, and then describe what you will ask them to do.
7. Explain how you will test your hypothesis. What statistical test will you use? How will you know if your hypothesis is supported? What are the assumptions of your hypothesis test? How will you know whether these assumptions have been met?
8. Describe one plausible threat to the internal validity of your study and explain how you will address or limit the impact of this threat in your design. If your design does not address this threat, explain why not.
9. Provide an evaluation of the external validity of the study, including one potential strength and one potential limitation of the external validity
10. Describe one ethical issue that you could encounter in this research, and how it might be addressed/resolved to the satisfaction of a Human Research Ethics Committee.