How will
you manipulate your treatment variables?
How will
you measure your dependent (criterion) variables?
How many
participants will you need?
Do you have
your professor’s permission to conduct the study?
Do you have
a suitable place to run your participants?
How will
you get your participants?
If you are
using animals, how will they be cared for?
What will
you do with your animals after the study?
If you are
using human participants, how will you make your sign-up sheets available to
potential participants?
Have you
included a description of the study (including how long it takes) on the
sign-up sheet?
Will
participants be rewarded for volunteering to be in your study (such as money or
extra credit)?
If you are
conducting an experiment, how will you assign participants to condition?
Have you
written out a detailed research protocol?
If you are
using human participants, have you developed a consent form?
If you are
using human participants, have you written out the oral instructions you will
give your participants?
If you are
using human participants, have you written out what you will say during
debriefing?
If volunteers are college students seeking extra
credit, how will you notify professors about which students participated?
Will you inform participants about the outcome of
your study? How?