A wellness research group launched the "Glow-Step" initiative to determine if visual rewards could encourage office workers to use stairs instead of elevators. They installed pressure-sensitive light panels on the main staircase of an 8-story corporate headquarters, which illuminated in vibrant patterns when climbed. Over a four-day period during a summer heatwave, the researchers recorded that staircase usage increased to 340 climbs per day, compared to an average of 95 climbs per day during a typical week prior to the installation. The group declared that visual gamification is the single most powerful strategy to permanently resolve the global crisis of sedentary workplace behaviour.
Identify one psychological issue raised by the above article. Support your answer with evidence from the source.
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.