Exam 4 Material Flashcards
What is debriefing?
to inform participants after the study about the study’s true nature, details, and hypothesis
What is Respect for Persons?
-Ethical principles from the Belmont Report: research participants should be treated as autonomous agents and that certain groups deserve special protection
- Individuals who do not have autonomy are entitles protection
- Anonymous and confidential studies
What is Informed Consent?
- Right of participants to learn about a research a project, know the risks and benefits, and decide whether to participate
What is Beneficence?
- An ethical principle from the Belmont Report: researchers must take precautions to protect participants from harm and to promote well-being
- Maximize the benefits and minimize the harm**
What is an anonymous study?
A way of establishing beneficence; researchers do not collect any identifying information
What is a confidential study?
A way of establishing beneficence; researchers collect some identifying information, but prevent disclosure
What is Justice?
An ethical principle from the Belmont Report calling for a fair balance between the kinds of people who participate in research and the kinds of people who benefit
What are the 5 APA Ethical Principles?
- Beneficence and nonmaleficence
- Fidelity and responsibility
- Integrity
- Justice
- Respect for others rights and dignity
What is the Declaration of Helsinki (1964)? and its 5 parts
- World Medical Association
- Protection and inclusion of vulnerable groups
- Physician investigators’ moral obligation to protect human participants are absolute
- Appropriate training and expertise
- Research Ethics committee
- Duty of the researcher to protect the participant
According to the Nuremberg Code, Research Must…
- Balance risk and benefit
- Benefit humanity
- Be well designed and based on previous research
What are the 4 parts to fidelity and responsibility?
- Consistency
- Commitment to professional behavior
- Inspire confidence and trust
- Take ownership of behavior
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
Committee responsible for ensuring that research using human participants is conducted ethically
What is deception?
the withholding of some details of a study from participants (deception through omission) or the act of actively lying to them (deception through commission)
What is data fabrication?
Researchers invent data that fit the hypothesis instead of providing accurate data
What is data falsification?
Researchers influence a study’s results
What is plagarism?
The appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words withing giving appropriate credit
What are the 3 R’s to guide the care and use of lab animals?
Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction
What is an interaction effect?
When the effect of the original independent variable depends on the level of another independent variable
An interaction effect is…
“the difference between differences”
What is a factorial design?
- A test for interactions
- design in which there are 2+ independent variables
What is the participant variable?
Variable whose levels are selected (measured), not manipulated
What is a main effect?
- The overall effect of one IV on the DV, averaging over the levels of the other IV
- A simple difference
What are marginal means?
The arithmetic means for each level of an IV, averaging over levels of the other IV
Is an interaction is more important than a main effect?
Yes
What is a quasi-experiment?
Researchers do not have full experimental control