8 Ethics Flashcards
Provide accurate information about their research proposal and obtain approval prior to conducting the research.
Institutional Approval
- a child’s affirmative agreement to participate in research. If the participant is 7-17 years of age, assent must be obtained. The assent form must be written at the appropriate reading level of the youngest participant in the age range and use simple terminology.
ASSENT
- contains all elements of written consent, however, the participant has verbally read the elements and verbally agrees to join. This may require corroborating documentation.
VERBAL CONSENT
- generally used when there is a language barrier and an English REC-approved consent is orally translated in the native language of the research participant.
SHORT FORM
The subjects should have a way to contact the investigator following participation in the research.
The participant should be able to receive help or advice from the researcher if problems should arise.
Protection from Harm and Debriefing
- investigator explains the general purposes of the research.
Debriefing
Minimize known risks
Read a series of self-referent statements designed to induce elation.
Counteract the negative mood induced earlier.
Sign a statement that they left the experiment feeling no worse than when they began it.
Removing Harmful Consequences
refers to the researcher’s agreement to handle, store, and share research data to ensure that information obtained from and about research participants is not improperly divulged.
Confidentiality
- Include sufficient information for reviewers to judge the nature and significance of the topic, the adequacy of the investigative strategy, the nature of the results, and the conclusions.
- This should summarize the substantive results of the work and not merely list topics to be discussed.
- This is an outline/brief summary of your paper and your whole project.
Abstracts
- Why is the problem important?
- What hypothesis will be tested in the experiment?
- What are the theoretical grounding behind the prediction?
- It is necessary that you do some library research to write the Introduction. Any secondary source like an introductory psychology text will provide a minimal background.
- You must also cite at least three primary sources (e.g., journal articles). The Psychological Abstracts are a good way to find recent primary sources.
Introduction
- This section is intended to communicate with people who know very little about what was done.
- Be certain, however, that you include enough information so the study could be replicated.
- Note also that you should use the second person, passive voice as well as past tense throughout your paper.
Method
- Does the result replicate or agree with the previous researches?
- What are the implications of the results?
Results
- In this section, discuss your results, do not simply repeat the results (avoid redundancy throughout the paper. There is no space for it!).
- Discuss your data in light of the hypotheses. Why might your results have been different from expectation or previous research?
- What is the significance for your hypotheses of the interactions?
- How might you explain the any unexpected effects.
- In the context provided by your Introduction, what do your results mean (what are the implications of these results)?
Discussion
- Every study has __. Study ____ can exist due to constraints on research design or methodology.
- Two main categories of this are those that result from the methodology and those that result from issues with the researcher(s).
Limitations
what kind of Limitation is this?
1. Lack of previous research studies on the topic
2. Methods/instruments/techniques used to collect the data
3. Issues with sample and selection
4. Insufficient sample size for statistical measurement
Common Methodological Limitations
