Exam 4: Ethics

Following Milgram's experiment in which participants were led to believe they had delivered dangerous electric shocks to another, he found that less than 2% had any negative feelings about the experience. This very low rate of negative feelings indicates

As a member of a developmental research team you are given the responsibility of obtaining parental consent for a group of kindergarten children to participate in a research study. You want to make the process of getting parental consent as easy as possible so you prepare the informed consent and then have the kindergarten give each child the consent form with instructions to give it to their parents for them to read and sign and return it only if they do not want their child to participate in the study. This approach would involve

In Milgram's obedience to authority experiments research participants believed they were delivering electric shock to another person when in fact they were not. This is a good example of

Designing psychological experiments often presents the researcher with ethical dilemmas, in the primary dilemma he or she must

Research misconduct includes all of the following. Which is considered to be the most serious?

Internet research as contrasted with laboratory research typically creates more difficulty in a variety of areas. Which of the following is NOT one of these areas?

According to your text, which of the following is NOT listed as a required part of a research protocol presented to the IRB?

One of the difficult ethical issues to contend with when doing Internet research is the issue of obtaining informed consent and when informed consent should be obtained. One of the thorny issues is determining what information is public and what information is private. Which of the following is definitely within the public domain and does not need informed consent.

Which of the following is true about the use of animals in psychological research?

The Tuskegee syphilis study violated the ethical principle of

All institutions

The role of the institutional animal care and use committee IACUC) of a research institution is to

Although it has been shown to be useful in research, fundamentally deception violates which APA standard?

In which of the following situations has the principle of informed consent been violated?

As a member of the IRB you have received a research study to review and report on at the next IRB meeting. In reviewing and considering all aspects of the study you focus on the aspect of how the benefits of the study should be distributed. Should the research participants benefit most and should the research participants in the control group benefit as much as those in the experimental group. Such deliberations involve the moral principle of

In which of the following situations would assent be used?

The term "desensitizing"

Both the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 and the APA Ethics Code Standard 8.09 deal with animal________ .

It has been shown that telling participants they are free to decline to participate without penalty

Passive consent occurs when