Chapter 4.2 Ethical Issues and Human participants Flashcards
Nuremberg Code
first
Belmont report
second.
principle of respect for persons
participants should accept and know they are in a research
principle of beneficence
researcher does not harm the participants
principle of justice
Participants should be picked equally, no other sides should be important, participants should representetives of people who will benefit from this research
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No harm: do not engage in torture, mental or physical. If any harm detected, take reasonable steps to minimize the harm
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Privacy and confidentiality: protect confidential information. discussing relevant limits of confidentiality
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Institutional Approval: psychologists provide accurat information about their research proposals
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Competence: Psychologists conduct research with populations and in areas only within the boundaries of their competence.
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Record Keeping: Psychologists create and extent records in order to allow for replications analyses and meet institutional requierements
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Informed Consent to Research: When psychologists conduct research, they obtain informed consent of the individual using language that is reasonably
understandable to that person except when conducting such activities without consent.
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Dispensing with Informed Consent: Psychologists may dispense with informed consent only where research would not reasonably be assumed to create distress or harm and involves the study of normal educational practices or only anonymous questionnaires, naturalistic observations or related to job, otherwise it must be permitted by law or federal or institution.
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Offering Inducements for research participation: Psychologists make reasonable efforts to avoid offering excessive or inappropriate financial or other inducements for research
participation when such inducements are likely to coerce participation.
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Deception in Research: Psychologists do not conduct a study involving deception unless they have determined that the use of deceptive techniques is
justified by the study’s significant prospective scientific, educational, or applied value, and that effective nondeceptive alternative
procedures are not feasible
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Debriefing: Psychologists provide a prompt opportunity for participants to obtain appropriate information about the nature, results, and
conclusions of the research, and then take reasonable steps to correct any misconceptions that participants may have of which
the psychologists are aware.