week 4 research

 Identifying Correlational and Experimental ResearchFor this exercise, visit http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html and participate in a correlational study or an experimental study. After doing so, answer the following questions:

• Which study did you select? (provide the title, if available and link)
• Was there an informed consent process? If so, what was it? (We will cover informed consent fully in Week 8/Chapter 3, but let’s start thinking about it now.*)
• Briefly explain the study that you, as a participant, were required to do for this study. 
• Was the study experimental or correlational?
  • Which features made it experimental or correlational?
  • If the study was correlational, what were the main variables measured, and which did they think were predictor and criterion variables?
  • If the study was experimental, what were the independent and dependent variables?
• Were any measures taken to control extraneous variables? If so, what were they?
• Does the study seem to have external validity? Internal validity? Why or why not?
• How could this study be changed from a correlational to an experimental study or from an experimental to a correlational study?
• Why did the researchers use the approach they did (correlational or experimental)?

• Chapter 5: Choosing a Research Design. Research Design Borden and Abbott
  explain what you were asked to do step by step please use subheadings for questions and steps