Final Project Early Methods

Early Methods SectionBeth BoardleyArgosy UniversityWhat is your research question?Does the influence of direct or indirect exposure to misinformation have an effect on eyewitness memory and testimony?What is your hypothesis or hypotheses? What is the null hypothesis?Hypothesis: If one is exposed to misinformation then it can lead to distortions in human memory for genuinely experienced events, as well as details of people, things, and places and eyewitness’s can be misled leading them to depict false information.Null Hypothesis: There is no affect to human memory, genuinely experienced events, nor details of people, things, and places, nor can eyewitness’s be misled leading them to depict false information when one is exposed to misinformation. How many participants would you like to use and why? What are the inclusion characteristics, i.e., what must they have in order to be included in your study (for example, gender, diagnosis, age, personality traits, etc.)? Are there any exclusion characteristics, i.e. are there certain characteristics that would exclude them from being in your study? Does the sample need to be diverse? Why or why not?For this study I would use 120 participants, 60 male