Experimental Design of Sleep Deprivation Study

In a recent study, researchers aimed to investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance. They recruited two groups of participants: one group was allowed to sleep for eight hours before completing a series of memory and attention tasks, while the other group was kept awake for 24 hours prior to the same tasks.

Your task is to design a more detailed experimental study to investigate this phenomenon. In your response, you should:

• Define the independent and dependent variables.
• Describe how participants will be selected and assigned to groups.
• Outline the procedures that will be followed during the experiment.
• Identify potential confounding variables and how you would control for them.