Some research suggests that environmental noise impairs cognitive performance, with employees working in louder offices making more clerical mistakes. To investigate this further, an occupational psychologist wants to use a correlational research design to examine the relationship between the average daily ambient noise level in the workplace (measured in decibels, dBA) and the number of administrative errors made by employees per week.
Write an alternative directional (one-tailed) hypothesis for this study.
201 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Planning and conducting research. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.