Read the case study "Stress Management: A Randomized Study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Yoga" and address the following
Preliminary Information
1. What was the independent variable? Describe how the treatment conditions or groups were generally different?
2. What was the dependent/outcome variable? How was it measured?
Sampling & External Validity
1. Describe at least two characteristics of the sample.
2. How were the subjects recruited?
3. If you were to replicate the study, how could you use incentives to increase participation? How might incentives confound (influence) the results?
4. Were subjects randomly allocated to treatment groups?
5. To what population could you generalize these results?
Procedure & Internal Validity
1a. what specific parts of the procedure were different between the treatment groups?
1b. what specific parts of the procedure were the same for the different groups?
2. How did the researchers make sure the different treatments were provided correctly? What else could they do to make sure?
3a. what possible experimenter effects could confound the results? 3b. how could you control for these experimenter effects?
Subject Bias
1a. how could subjects' expectations about the effect of the treatments confound results?
1b. how could you control for these expectations?
2a. how may evaluation apprehension affect the results?
2b. how could you control for or reduce evaluation apprehension?
Ethics
1. How would you protect subjects' privacy during and after the study?
2. What possible psychological harm could occur to subjects as a result of this study?
3. Did the authors achieve informed consent? Why is this important to do?