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What is your research hypothesis?

What is the justification (including at least two citations from past research) for your hypothesis?

What is your population of interest?

How will you sample?

How will you assign participants to conditions?

Justify your use of repeated measures vs independent groups design?

How many participants total do you need?

How many independent variables and levels? How are they operationalized?

What is your manipulation check?

How many dependent variables and levels? How are they operationalized?

Do you expect any floor or ceiling effects?

Do you expect any specific threats to validity? If so, how do you plan to control for them?

How long does your entire experiment take?

What are your expected findings?

What materials do you need photocopied?

What equipment do you need?

Where would you like to run your experiment?