2. … how your sample reflects that context?
When answering this question, consider how you recruit participants for your study, and whether your sample is representative of, e.g., your region.
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3. … how your testing site reflects that context?
Controlled laboratory research examples:
- Lab testing room in wet-lab facilities
Partially naturalistic laboratory research approach examples:
- Measuring EEG simultaneously in two participants who are interacting
- Lab that is set up to look like a classroom
- Testing ambulatory patients
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4. … how your task reflects that context?
Here is a general explanation for what the different categories mean with regard to the task plus more examples:
Controlled laboratory research examples:
The process of interest is isolated by manipulating only a minimum number of factors in a specific experimental design, and all other factors are held constant
- Spatial orienting task involving a single target stimulus (a shape) preceded by a single cue/distractor
- Inhibiting a button press to a trained stimulus
- Flanker task (responding to the direction of a middle arrow, that is displayed between other arrows pointing in a similar or opposite direction)
- Oddball task (responding to a target stimulus in a stream of distractors)
Partially naturalistic laboratory research approach examples:
Process-specific tasks are used in settings that resemble everyday situations
- Tasks conducted in virtual reality or a room resembling a naturalistic context (kitchen, a flat or a simple shop)
- Social interaction in the lab with a confederate
- Clinical neuropsychological task to measure cognitive functions such as fluid Intelligence [Matrix Reasoning, etc], attention [Forward Digit span, etc], executive functions [ Trail Making Test Part B, etc], memory [Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test], social cognition [Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, etc], etc.
- Watching a movie in the MRI scanner
- Peer presence during task - giving a speech in the lab in front of confederates/video recording of an audience
Naturalistic real-world research approach examples:
The process of interest is measured in real-world situations
- Classroom based and teacher lead cirriculum
- Free narratives
- Observing/transcribing videos of treatment sessions with clinician
- Using a fitbit-like motion sensor to measure daily activity
- Social network analysis
- In classroom behavior
- EMA about social behavior
5. … how your stimuli reflect that context?
Here is a general explanation for what the different categories mean with regard to the stimuli plus more examples:
Controlled laboratory research examples:
Total control over stimuli
Partially naturalistic laboratory research approach examples:
Some, but not total, control over stimuli
Naturalistic real-world research approach examples:
No control over stimuli
6. … how your measures reflect that behavior?
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7. Are non-research stakeholders involved? ( teachers, caretaker, institutions, clinicians)
Controlled laboratory research:
Practitioners (clinicians, teachers, head teachers, speech therapists) are not involved or involved by providing the access to the populations of interests
Partially naturalistic laboratory research approach:
Practitioners advise on and contribute at some but not all stages of the research project ( study design)
Naturalistic real-world research approach:
Practitioners advise on and contribute to all stages of the research project (help design, implement, and report on an intervention
8. Please indicate where your intervention fits in best.
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