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• What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?

As the amount of coffee a person consumes daily increases, does dependence happen faster?

• What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?

The variables would be the number of ounces of coffee a person drinks in one day and if the number increases or decreases each day.

• What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)

This would be best suited by an experimentally designed research study.

• What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)

Both a lab experiment and case survey could be used to conduct the experiment

• If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?

The independent variables would be the genders and ages of the participants.

The dependent variable would be the different ounces of coffee consumed

• Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.

My hypothesis would be that the more ounces of coffee consumed per day would lead to a physical dependence much faster.

• What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?

The benefits would be showing that coffee in fact can cause physical dependence if not used in moderation and the more a person drinks, the easier and faster dependence can set in.

• Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?

Challenges would be trying to control any possible confounding variables. Its possible to be more difficult than expected because everything would have to be strictly monitored and consistent.