Question

answer the following ,by including the answer to these questions in your response.

What would be a good way to increase the number of organ donors in Georgia?
1.  What is the operational definition (the definition you'll use for research purposes) of the main variables involved?  For some of these, you'll need to rephrase the question and decide which variables you'll focus on.
2.  Which variable is the independent variable?  Which one is the dependent variable?  How do you tell the difference?  Explain in your own words.
3. Is this question able to be answered by psychological scientists?  Why or why not?
4.  If you do deem the question answerable, which research method (experimental, case study, naturalistic observation, survey, or archival research) would you use, and why?

Answer 1

1. 'Strategies to improve the number of organ donors: A focused study on Georgia.'

If we rephrase the research problem like this, the definition of 'Organ donor' will be as follows:

"The person who allows an organ of their own to be removed and transplanted to another person, legally, either by consent while the donor is alive or dead with the assent of the next of kin.

Also, you can provide a definition for organ transplantation:

"It is the process of removing a specific tissue of the human body from a person who has recently died or from a living donor, for the purpose of transplanting them into other persons."

2. Dependent variable: Number of organ donors.

Independent variable: Devised strategies.

Dependent variables are those which can be varied in accordance with the changes in the independent variable.

Here, the strategies that we are taking will change the attitude of the population towards organ donation. So, we will be observing different strategies and their effect on organ donation behavior.

3. Yes,

The psychological scientist can study the attitude of the population towards the organ transplantation.

There are a number of variables that will fascinate a psychological scientist, they are:

Behavior, behavior formation, behavior modification, attitude, attitude formation, etc

Ultimately he can provide the strategies to improve the number of donations.

4. Survey method,

It will be a convenient and most suitable method for our study as it demands data collection from a huge population.

We can assess the attitude of the population by providing questionnaires, door to door survey, etc.

The common benefits of survey methods are:

• It is easy to understand and evaluate.
• It can collect data from a huge number of populations.
• Easy to conduct.
• It can reduce both Experimenter and participant bias.

Conclusion:

Among survey methods, the questionnaire method is the most preferable method.