A sports psychologist wants to investigate whether performing a brief mindfulness meditation session immediately prior to a high-pressure physical performance (such as a 100m sprint) reduces physiological signs of pre-competition anxiety in academy athletes. The study is scheduled to take place at a regional track-and-field academy with 80 elite youth athletes aged 15-16. The psychologist plans to compare heart rate measurements of athletes who undergo the meditation session with those who sit quietly in a control group before sprinting.
Outline one way the psychologist could uphold the ethical consideration of respect 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.