False confession is a huge problem in the US it s estimated

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False confession is a huge problem in the US it s estimated to be a factor in approximately 15 25 of wrongful convictions Frenda et al 2016 had college students complete computer tasks they were repeatedly warned not to hit the Escape key because that would delete all the data Afterward half were randomly assigned to sleep in a bedroom at the lab while the other half stayed up all night The next day all participants were falsely accused of hitting the Escape key in fact none of thern had actually done so and asked to sign a statement admitting to this They found that 50 of the sleep deprived participants signed the confession after being asked only once in other words nobody was yelling at them or repeatedly pressuring thern Among the participants who got sleep 18 confessed Frenda S J Berkowitz S R Loftus E F Fenn K M 2016 Sleep deprivation and false confessions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 8 2047 2050 https doi org 10 1073 pnas 1521518113 Answer all of the questions below a Was this basic research or applied research Explain your reasoning in 1 2 sentences b Was this study experimental quasi experimental or correlational Explain your reasoning in 1 2 sentences c Identify the independent and dependent variables d What is one limitation of this study In other words you either identify a one thing you think they should have done differently with their method and why or b what is a variable that you think they should have considered and why You should take 1 2 sentences to describe the limitation and another 2 3 sentences to explain why it s a limitation