RESEARCH STUDY 4.1 Dr. Kline Is Planning on Conducting a Study Next Semester

RESEARCH STUDY 4.1
Dr. Kline is planning on conducting a study next semester. He is curious as to whether sleep deprivation is associated with poorer cognitive performance. For example, if you sleep poorly the night before a big exam, will you do worse? Dr. Kline is especially curious about selective sleep deprivation, where people are kept from entering R.E.M. (rapid eye movement) sleep. Using an electroencephalograph (EEG) to monitor brain waves, he plans to let participants sleep until they enter R.E.M. sleep and then he will wake them. After 1 minute of being awake, he plans to let them return to sleep. As they enter R.E.M. sleep again, he wakes them up again and follows the same procedure. He plans to do this through the entire 8-hour sleep session. The following morning, participants will be asked to take a sample SAT test.
-Refer to Research Study 4.1 above to answer the following question. Dr.Kline is deciding whether he needs to give participants a reason for waking them up several times during the night.He knows that he cannot tell them the real reason,but he is unsure whether he should deceive them (give them a false reason why he is waking them up) or provide them with no cover story at all.Which of the following issues should be considered most heavily when deciding whether or not to use deception?

A) Whether his IRB will approve the use of deception
B) Whether he can create a convincing story that his participants will believe
C) Whether he can conduct the study just as well without deception
D) Whether his participants will be angry when they find out he used deception
E) All of the above are equally important in making this decision

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