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Originally Posted by KaceFace
Hi guys,
So I'm a psych major taking Research Methods this semester. We have to come up with a hypothesis (a testable question) and create a procedure for the experiment and actually conduct the experiment and get results and then write an APA style research paper over our findings.
I was wondering if anyone had any really good/fun ideas of something I could do. I can't do anything related to sex or conflict. I had an idea of testing what effect music has on a person's memory or mood. Like how their memory is affected while listening to music while studying or something like that. But I wanted to see if y'all had some really interesting ideas I could possibly do.
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KaceFace, how are you going to be able to conduct an experiment on human subjects without having to run the proposal by your uni's IRB (Internal Review Board)? Professional ethics say that any research has to be reviewed to determine if there is a potential of harm to the subjects.
In my research methods classes, both undergrad and grad, we had to design an experiment, state how we would conduct it and predict results. We didn't actually conduct the experiment.