A researcher is investigating how feedback affects self-evaluation. Year 8 pupils complete a set of unfamiliar logic puzzles. Regardless of their actual score, each pupil is told that they performed worse than 90% of their year group. Before being told that this feedback was false, the pupil rates how intelligent they think they are on a scale from 1 to 10.
Explain how this study could cause psychological harm to the participants.
182 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.1 Planning Research, covering 7.1.1 Hypotheses, 7.1.2 Variables, 7.1.3 Experimental Designs, 7.1.4 Populations and Sampling, 7.1.5 Ethical issues, and 7.1.6 Dealing with ethical issues and BPS Code. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.