A health psychologist investigated the relationship between daily caffeine consumption and performance on a high-stress simulated driving test. The researcher recruited a self-selected sample of 60 licensed drivers.
Over a 10-day period, each participant logged their daily caffeine intake in milligrams using a specialized mobile application. Following this, their driving performance was evaluated using a 30-minute high-fidelity simulated driving test under hazardous weather conditions (heavy rain and low visibility), measuring their reaction time to unexpected obstacles.
Outline how the ethical consideration of informed consent could have been dealt with in 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.