Chapter 2 Ethics Flashcards
ethics
a set of principles prescribing morally correct behaviours
National statement on ethical conduct in human research
integrity, beneficence, justice and respect
Research participants
A person who takes part in and contributes data to psychological research
Human research ethics committee
Committee of individuals who provide the rights to participants
University and institutions must have on to receive funding
Risks HREC look for
physical, psychological social and legal
informed consent
The idea that persons should be given enough information about a study to make their decision to participate as a research subject
deception
Participants are not told the details of the experiment at the outset
debriefing
A post experimental session in which the researcher explains the study’s purpose to the participant
participant crosstalk
A tendency for people who have participated in a particular study to inform future participants of its purpose
dehoaxing
That portion of debriefing in which the true purpose of the study is explained to the participants
desensitizing
The portion of debriefing in which the experimenter tries to reduce any stress felt by participants as a result of the research experiments
subjects
non-human participants
vivisection
surgical procedures on live animals
Antrhozoology
A branch of science primarily concerned with examining human-animal interactions
Two types of fraud in science
plagiarism and falsifying data
Plagiarism
deliberately taking the ideas of someone else and claiming them as your own
Falsifying data
Manufacturing or altering data to bring about a desired result
