Your psychology teacher has read about mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques and wants to investigate its benefits.
She asks you to design a study to see if there is a correlation between weekly time spent meditating and physiological stress levels in college students.
You need to select a sample of 15 participants using volunteer sampling.
Your teacher tells you not to use self-report to measure stress levels and tells you to use a different, more objective way of measuring stress.
Suggest how you could measure the two co-variables, weekly time spent meditating and physiological stress levels, for your study.
Practise AQA A Level Psychology Research methods with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 100 questions covering Experimental method, Observational techniques, Self-report techniques, Correlations, Content analysis (A-level only), Case studies (A-level only), Scientific processes, Data handling and analysis, and Inferential testing (A-level only), matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.