Chapter 15

Question 1

Basic Ethical Guidelines

Answer 1

Add to our basic knowledge 
Improve a procedure
Improve a program 
Improve quality of life
**think about:Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Question 2

Benefits to Consider

Answer 2

Researcher:
     -Knowledge
     -Career advancement
Participant:
     -Knowledge
     -May help improve an aspect of their life

Question 3

Institutional Review Board

Answer 3

Things researcher must do:

• Provide informed consent
• Ensure confidentiality
• Ensure knowledge that participation is voluntary
• Minimize Harm
• Debrief participants

Question 4

consent

Answer 4

Have to have people that are 18 or older….
What happens if you cant give informed consent?
-guardian can
Do you always need consent?
-NO, for example the observation study.

Question 5

Ensure confidentiality

Answer 5

• Means participants must not be able to be identified
• Data has to be secured
• Confidentiality begins at the study’s beginning

Question 6

Voluntary Participation

Answer 6

Participants have the right:

• To refuse to participate
• To not be pressured
• To free to withdraw at any time (at any time)

Question 7

Minimize Harm

Answer 7

The risk of harm must be no greater than in ordinary life.

Question 8

Debrief participants

Answer 8

Explain what the study was about

Provide time for participants to ask questions

Provide additional sources if participants would like to ask additional questions/counseling

Question 9

Other Important Issues - Deception

Answer 9

Only used when knowing ahead of time might influence participants’ responses

Deception cannot cause undue stress

Participants must be fully debriefed afterwards

Question 10

Other Important Issues - Deception

Answer 10

Objetions:

1. Violates individual’s right to choose to participate.
2. A questionable basis on which to build a discipline.
3. Leads to distrust of psychology in the community

Question 11

Ethical conduct with statistics!

Answer 11

You can do just about anything with your data, but you need to disclose what you do!

Question 12

Some Other Violations

Answer 12

Fabrication – making up data
Falsification – manipulating physical aspects to get the results you want
Plagiarism – using another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving credit
Ethical standards – disregarding the IRB
Suppressing data – ignoring results because it won’t be “popular”