Exam 4: Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research

Dr.Van Ryan is a social psychologist who is curious about how clothing affects people's perceptions.Specifically,she is curious how women who wear high heels are perceived in the workplace.Does the addition of height make co-workers take them more seriously? Are women who wear high heels seen as less professional? She is considering using an experimental design where some participants are instructed to wear high heels to work for a week and some participants are instructed to wear flat shoes.Each day of the week,Dr.Van Ryan will have the women's employer and co-workers rate how competent and professional the female participant is. -What is the principle of justice? Explain how the principle of justice needs to be addressed by Dr.Van Ryan as she considers conducting her study.

The aim of the Tuskegee Study was to examine which disease?

To address the Belmont principle of beneficence,Dr.Kline would need to ask which of the following questions?

In which of the following ways is an IACUC different from an IRB?

The American Psychological Association's ethical guidelines have ________ principles and ________ standards.

What is the difference between data that is collected anonymously and data that is collected confidentially?

Which of the following events did NOT occur in the Tuskegee Study?

In considering whether research is ethical,which of the following are balanced against each other?

Which of the following studies would probably NOT require an in-person IRB meeting to obtain approval?

Dr.Van Ryan is a social psychologist who is curious about how clothing affects people's perceptions.Specifically,she is curious how women who wear high heels are perceived in the workplace.Does the addition of height make co-workers take them more seriously? Are women who wear high heels seen as less professional? She is considering using an experimental design where some participants are instructed to wear high heels to work for a week and some participants are instructed to wear flat shoes.Each day of the week,Dr.Van Ryan will have the women's employer and co-workers rate how competent and professional the female participant is. -Which of the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association (APA)guidelines is most important to psychologists conducting research? Name two components of this standard that Dr.Van Ryan must consider as she plans her study.

The belief that the participants in a research study should be representative of the type of people who would also benefit from the findings of the research stems from which principle of the Belmont Report?

Dr.Kline's decision about the type of participants to recruit should be informed by which of the following principles of the Belmont Report?

Dr.Van Ryan is a social psychologist who is curious about how clothing affects people's perceptions.Specifically,she is curious how women who wear high heels are perceived in the workplace.Does the addition of height make co-workers take them more seriously? Are women who wear high heels seen as less professional? She is considering using an experimental design where some participants are instructed to wear high heels to work for a week and some participants are instructed to wear flat shoes.Each day of the week,Dr.Van Ryan will have the women's employer and co-workers rate how competent and professional the female participant is. -After Dr.Van Ryan conducts her study,a colleague accuses Dr.Van Ryan of deleting some of the data that does not match her hypothesis.If this is true,in what type of research misconduct did Dr.Van Ryan engage? Why is this behavior a problem for the science in general?

In addition to being an ethical violation,why are data falsification and fabrication problematic?

Dr.Johnson is planning on conducting a study in which he observes the ways people approach each other in bars.He plans to sit at a local bar and listen to the ways men introduce themselves to women and the ways women introduce themselves to men.To avoid detection,he plans to sit at the bar and write down the information he collects on cocktail napkins.Dr.Johnson concludes that he does not need to have participants sign a written informed consent.Explain the concept of informed consent and why Dr.Johnson does not need to collect informed consent in this study.

A local committee that reviews research that is conducted on animals is known as ________.

When determining whether a study should be conducted,we have to balance which two issues?

Which of the following is NOT a reason that psychologists might fabricate or falsify their data?

Dr.Kline plans to use deception in his study and is thinking about a debriefing session.Which of the following is true of the debriefing?

As a psychologist who primarily does research,Dr.Kline is most concerned with which APA standard of ethics?