Transcript Ethics

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Answer these Qs…
Hypothesis?
IV/DV
Experimental/Control Group?
Population?
Sample Type/Size?
Was it statistically significant? What does this
mean?
APA Ethical Guidelines for
Research
• IRB- Internal Review
Board
• Both for humans and
animals.
Animal Research
• Clear purpose
• Treated in a humane
way
• Acquire animals
legally
• Least amount of
suffering possible.
Human Research
• No Coercion- must
be voluntary
• Informed consent
• Anonymity
• No significant risk
• Must debrief
Research Scenario A
You plan to study the effects of competition on
ability to solve math problems. Half of the
subjects will be told that you want to see what
approach they take in solving math problems.
The other half will be told that you want to see
which person chooses the best approach.
Research Scenario B
You plan to compare the intellectual skills of retired
people with those of college sophomores. To recruit
college sophomores, you plan to arrange for volunteers
to receive an “A” in their psychology course and for
non-volunteers to have their grade lowered. To recruit
retired people, you plan to go to a retirement
community each evening next week, knock at people’s
doors, and ask them to work some puzzles without
explaining all of the details of the study because most
would not understand.
Research Scenario C
You plan to compare marijuana use in college
freshmen and seniors. Because you may want
to re-interview some subjects later, you plan to
write their names and phone numbers on their
data sheets. You plan to promise
confidentiality so that subjects will trust you
and to keep the data in your room in a locked
file.
• You plan to study the effects of educational
(cable) TVC curriculum on learning to read. You
give access to the cable TV program to 100
homes with 5-year-olds whose parents want
their child to watch the TV curriculum daily.
You get permission to test those 100 children in
2 months, along with 100 matched control
children who will not have access to the cable
TV.
• To study self-esteem in children, you plan to
have 8-year-olds draw pictures of themselves
and their friends and to answer some
questions, and provide their responses
without their names or other unique
identifiers. You plan to ask a teacher friend of
yours to let you test some of her students.
The Monster Study--1939
• Positive/Negative Praise in Children
Monkey Drug Trials
• Monkeys trained to inject themselves with
drugs
Landis Facial Expression
Experiment--1924
Learned Helplessness
Milgram Experiment