Exam 4: Ethical Guidelines for Psychology Research

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?

Dr.Kline suspects that the people who will most benefit from his study are high school and college students,who are asked to perform cognitive functions in various states of sleep deprivation.Given this information,what type of participants should Dr.Kline recruit for his study?

State the five ethical principles proposed by the APA.How do these principles differ from the Belmont principles?

State the three principles of the Belmont Report and explain how the Tuskegee Study violated each of them.

Which of the following is NOT a reason that a researcher might include debriefing in their study?

Which of the following is true regarding obtaining informed consent in Dr.Kline's study?

What is the primary responsibility of an Institutional Review Board (IRB);where are IRBs found,and who sits on such a board?

Dr.Kline's IRB requires him to obtain written informed consent.Which of the following does Dr.Kline NOT need to include in his informed consent document?

In addition to the three principles derived from the Belmont Report,which of the following two principles were added in the principles put forth by the American Psychological Association?

What are the two issues that need to be balanced in conducting ethical research?

The need to balance the potential costs and benefits to participants taking part in a research study is done to address which principle 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. -What is the principle of beneficence? Explain how the principle of beneficence needs to be addressed by Dr.Van Ryan as she considers conducting her study.

What are the three primary arguments provided in favor of animal research?

All of the following are true of IRBs in the United States EXCEPT:

Which of the following is true of students' views of deception and harm in research studies?

According to the Belmont Report,which of the following groups of people is entitled to special protection?

Which of the following ethical violations proposed by the Belmont Report was NOT committed in the Tuskegee Study?

Imagine that Dr.Kline is a clinical psychologist who volunteers his time at a local prison counseling several inmates.Because of his connections there,he is considering using prisoners as his participants.Why is this choice potentially problematic?

Dr.Kline plans to tell his participants that the reason he is waking them up during the night is to recalibrate the EEG machine.This would be an example of which of the following?

Explain why the Belmont principle of respect for persons requires participants to provide informed consent.