Thanks to the success of your recent correlational research on the relationship between video games and academic achievement, you have been given a five million-dollar grant to explore the issue further. You plan to conduct a true experiment in order to determine if playing video games leads to poor academic performance in junior high aged students. Provide a detailed account of how you plan to conduct your research. Be sure to:

1.    Describe your subjects.

2.    Identify the independent variable.

3.    Identify the dependent variable.

4.    Provide operational definitions for those variables.

5.    Describe 3 control techniques you could (or should) use in 
       your study AND what threats to validity they control.

6.    Describe what is necessary for you to conclude that playing
       video games "causes" a decrease in academic performance.

7.    Describe a serious ethical problem with your study.