Exam 3: The Ethical Principles That Guide Researchers

Which of the following groups of research subjects would be considered a vulnerable population, requiring a more detailed review by an Institutional Review Board?

Statements of principles that guide professional behavior or practice are called:

A researcher is hired to evaluate the effectiveness of a substance abuse rehabilitation program for incarcerated offenders. After reviewing the data provided by the organization administering the program, the researcher notices that a large amount of information is missing. The researcher should do which of the following?

Which of the following groups would be considered a vulnerable population?

You have been asked to determine the extent to which the local police department enforces marijuana laws. You hire ten students and ask them to openly smoke marijuana in various public places. You want to see if the police confront them. The potential ethical violation here is:

A research supervisor who allows assistants to enter into a high crime neighborhood at night without a contingency plan is violating what ethical principle?

After conducting a case study of a child who had been the victim of bullying in school, you realize that others might be able to determine the identity of the research subject (the child) You decide to publish the results anyway because you have the guardian's permission and you doubt that anyone will read your article. The potential ethical violation here is:

When a researcher knows but agrees not to disclose her research subjects' identities, she has likely assured them of:

Researchers who intend to gather information from human subjects should seek the approval for their research from an Institutional Review Board:

A student who copies and pastes information from a free public website into a research report without attribution is violating what ethical principle?

A tribal police department has asked you to evaluate an alcohol dependency program being offered on a Native American reservation. You immediately travel to the reservation and begin interviewing patients, all alcoholics, in the treatment facility. You presume that since the tribal police department invited you to evaluate the program, you can get started right away. The potential ethical violation here is:

Researchers should secure consent from research subjects prior to gathering information from them. This consent must be both:

If a researcher threatens to tell a research subject's boss that the subject has refused to participate in the research study, the subject's consent is considered:

At the request of the local police chief, you are conducting research on the work habits of police officers. You tell the officers about the nature of the study and the information you are going to collect in interviews with them. You also suggest that their failure to participate in the ""department approved"" research project will be reported to the chief. The potential ethical violation here is:

A researcher who asks subjects to fill out a survey without asking their permission or telling them how the survey will be used is violating what ethical principle?

Which of the following research projects would likely require a full review, as opposed to an expedited review, by an Institutional Review Board?

When should a research report on the safety and effectiveness of a new non-lethal weapon used by police officers be reviewed more critically?

A corporate research sponsor who refuses to release damaging research information is violating what ethical principle?

After analyzing the data from a study you are conducting on a drug use prevention program, you find that your results are not as definitive as you had predicted. You suspect that some of the data may have been coded wrong so you change some of the data. This changes the results dramatically and ""proves"" that you were right. The potential ethical violation here is:

When it is not possible for anybody, including the researcher, to determine the identities of the research subjects using the information they provide on a survey, we say that research subjects have been granted: