Empowering Health Behavior Change: Applying Bandura's Social-Cognitive Theory to Combat Sedentary Lifestyles

Introduction

Your task is to prepare a research proposal that applies Banduras social-cognitive theory,
covered in Module 5, to address a public health issue of your choice.

Purpose

This task assesses the following course learning outcomes:

1. Apply principles of learning theory to human and animal behaviour.
2. Communicate applications of learning theories to a variety of audiences.
3. Formulate research designs based on the knowledge presented about learning
   theories.

Your Task

Prepare a research proposal for a quantitative study that applies Banduras social-cognitive
theory to address a public health issue of your choice. Some examples might include obesity,
smoking rates, or physical activity levels. The intended audience are reviewers for a grantfunding agency who have a strong general knowledge of psychology, but not of this specific
topic. Your proposal will include the following sections:

1. A cover page including:

1. a title shorter than 15 words that accurately describes the main elements of your proposed study
2. your student number (not your name).

2. An introduction (suggest 100150 words) in which you briefly describe:

1. your chosen public health issue and establish the importance of addressing it
2. social-cognitive theory and explain, in general terms, how you will apply it to
   address your public health issue.

3. A literature review (suggest 300500 words) in which you identify and summarise
relevant, peer-reviewed background literature, and synthesise its findings, conclusions,
and/or arguments to motivate your proposed study. This motivation could range from
an unexplored gap in which there is no previous research, to a logical and principled
extension of a large body of previous research. Examples of relevant literature include;
research investigating your public health issue, or similar issues, and previous
approaches to addressing it; research applying social-cognitive theory to your public
health issue; or research applying social-cognitive theory to addressing a similar
problem.

4. A proposed study section (suggest 300500 words) including the following
subsections:

1. Aim: State the overall aim of your proposed research. This should follow logically
   from the literature review, where you outlined the motivation for your study.
   
2. Research Design: Describe the research design of your proposed quantitative
   study and explain why it is appropriate to address your aim(s). You may like to
   revisit the research design content from Research Methods, Design, and Analysis
   (RMDA) for a refresh. You should describe the independent and dependent
   variable(s), manipulated factors (if any), whether any manipulations are
   between- or within-groups, and what will be done with the outcome variable
   (e.g., comparison, association).
3. Hypotheses: Propose a quantitative hypothesis that logically follows from your
   synthesis of the background literature and is suitable for your research design.

5. A method section (suggest 200400 words, but make this section as concise as
possible) including the following subsections:

1. Participants: Describe the characteristics of the participants you would recruit
   for this study and specify a desired sample size. Describe any inclusion or
   exclusion criteria for participants.
2. Materials: Describe each task, measure/questionnaire, or specialised piece of
   equipment (e.g., physiological monitoring) that would be used to conduct your
   prospective study.
3. Procedure: Describe the order in which participants move through the phases
   or tasks of your study, beginning with participants giving consent to participate.
4. Statistical Analysis: Describe the statistical analyses you would use to test your
   proposed hypotheses. These should be appropriate for your research design
   and resulting data. See below for more information about statistical test
   selection.

6. An ethical considerations section (suggest 200300 words) in which you:

1. identify and describe three potential ethical issues that you would need to
   consider when running your proposed study. Ideally, these will be issues specific
   to your study, rather than general issues common to all psychology studies
2. propose how you would reduce the ethical risks posed by each of these issues.

Statistical Test Selection

The assumed level of statistical knowledge for this course is the carousel one course
Research Methods, Design and Analysis (RMDA). The following flowchart shows how to
select a statistical test from those covered in RMDA according to your proposed research
design.

You can adequately address the statistical test selection aspect of the rubric selecting the
test covered in RMDA that is most appropriate for your hypotheses. This applies even if a
more sophisticated statistical test might typically be used for your proposed study design.

You may choose to specify more advanced statistical tests than those covered in RMDA but
will not receive extra marks for doing so. You will lose marks if you specify tests that are not
appropriate for your study design.

Requirements

• You must submit your assessment using the relevant portal in MyUni/Canvas.
• Submit your responses in a text document in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.
• Format your submission according to APA 7th edition conventions for student papers.
• Your tutors are instructed not to read or assess words written beyond the 1650-
  word limit (+10%).
• Consult the assessment rubric when preparing your submission.
• Questions can be posted to the Assessment 3 Discussion Board.

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