Exam 3: Ethical Guidelines for Research

Procedures to protect each subject's privacy, such as locking records and creating special identifying codes, are nearly impossible to implement in research settings.

Describe the Stanford Prison Simulation by Philip Zimbardo (1973).

IRBs ensure that the decision to take part in research can have no effect on ______.

Describe an instance where a researcher would be obligated to break confidentiality and report an incident to the proper authorities.

An IRB proposal must include research instruments and consent forms, as applicable, as well as ______.

Milgram's research on obedience to authority figures' instructions was prompted by ______.

If deception is used in an experiment, the researcher should ______ the participants afterwards to conduct ethical research.

The U. S. Government created a National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects which released a report in 1979, establishing ______ basic ethical principles for the protection of human subjects.

By regulatory definition, any person under 18 years old is considered to be a child and, as such, ______.

Regarding the ability to give consent to participate in research, children ______.

In which circumstances may it be defensible for a researcher to deceive his or her subjects? If deception is defensible, what must a researcher do over the course of research to maintain ethical standards? Discuss in some detail the issues of deception during the Stanford Prison Experiment.

Explain the processes of deception and debriefing.

Most social scientists believe that it is never proper for scientists to concern themselves with the way their research is used.

Which of the following is not a current ethical standard concerning the treatment of human subjects?

______ is a document issued by the National Institutes of Health to protect researchers from being legally required to disclose confidential information.