University counseling services have experienced a surge in demand in recent years. In response, a university trials a peer-led support program where older student mentors provide weekly group sessions to first-year students to help reduce academic anxiety. Researchers design a study to evaluate this intervention, using self-report questionnaires administered immediately after the final session to measure students' anxiety levels.
Outline one factor that may lower the usefulness of the findings from this study.
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.