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PART 2. THEORY & RESEARCH Flashcards

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Coherent set of logically related concepts that seeks to organize, explain, and predict data.

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Theory

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Possible explanations for phenomena, used to predict the outcome of research.

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Hypotheses

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2 Basic Issues

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Active or Reactive

Continuous or Discontinuous

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Who proposed the mechanistic model?

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John Locke

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Who proposed the organismic model?

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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This model believes that people are like machines that react to the environment. It believes development is continuous and changes are quantitative.

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Mechanistic Model

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This model believes that people are active, growing organisms that set their own development in action. It believes development is discontinuous and changes are qualitative.

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Organismic Model

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5 MAJOR PERSPECTIVES OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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Psychoanalytic
Learning
Cognitive
Contextual
Evolutionary/Sociobiological
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This perspective focuses on the unconscious emotions and drives.

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Pychoanalytic

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This views development in the light of observable behaviors.

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Learning

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It is a human developmental view that emphasizes the thought process.

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Cognitive

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It views development through the historical, social, and context lens.

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Contextual

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Proposed by E.D. Wilson. This perspective believes that human development occurs because of the evolutionary and biological underpinnings of behavior.

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Evolutionary/Sociobiological

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3 Parts of Personality according to Freud

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Id
Ego
Superego

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Acts according to the pleasure principle

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Id

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The mediator of Id and Superego. It is responsible for finding realistic ways that satisfies the Id that are acceptable to the Superego.

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Ego

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Stages in Freud’s Psychosexual Development

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Oral stage (birth; 0-1 yrs)
Anal Stage (1-3 yrs)
Phallic Stage (3-5 yrs)
Latency Stage (5 yrs to puberty)
Genital Stage (from puberty on)
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Occurs when a kid, while growing up, received too much or too little of something in a certain stage.

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fixation

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This stands up to moral standards and aims to please others.

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Superego

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Stages of Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

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Trust VS Mistrust (0 to 1 1/2 yrs) = Hope
Autonomy VS Shame and Doubt (1 1/2 to 3 yrs) = Will
Initiative VS Guilt (3 to 5 yrs) = Purpose
Industry VS Inferiority (5 to 12 yrs) = Competence
Identity VS Role Confusion (12 to 18 yrs) = Fidelity
Intimacy VS Isolation (18 to 40 yrs) = Love
Generativity VS Stagnation (40 to 65 yrs) = Care
Ego Integrity VS Despair (65 and above yrs) = Wisdom

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This theory of human development believe personality is influenced by society and develops through a series of stages with positive and negative tendencies. Positives must dominate but some degree of negative is needed to achieve optimal development.

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Erikson’s Psychosocial Development

[Active]

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major psychosocial challenge that is particularly important at that time and will remain an issue to some degree throughout life.

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crisis in personality

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Theory that states behavior is controlled by powerful unconscious urges (libido).

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Freud’s Psychosexual Development

[Reactive]

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Theories that says people are responders to the environment.

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Behaviorism

[Reactive]

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In this theory, children learn in a social context by observing and imitating others.

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Bandura’s Social learning theory

[Active and Reactive]

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This theory believes that changes are qualitative and occurs between infancy and adolescence.

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Piaget’s cognitive-stage theory

[Active]

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A theory that emphasizes social interaction as the central ingredient of cognitive development.

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Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory

[Active]

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It notes that human beings are processors of symbol.

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Information-processing theory

[Active]

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In this theory, the developing person and 5 contextual influences interact.

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Bronfrenbrenner’s bioecological theory

[Active]

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These theories says that human beings are the product of adaptive processes.

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Evolutionary psychology
Bowlby’s attachment theory
[Active and Reactive - theorists vary]

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This conditioning refers to the association of stimuli and event.

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Classical conditioning

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This conditioning refers to the association of behavior and consequences.

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Operant conditioning

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Process of strengthening a behavior thus, increasing the chances of the behavior occurring again.

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Reinforcement

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Process by which a behavior is weakened,

decreasing the likelihood of repetition.

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Punishment

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It is a form of operant conditioning used to eliminate undesirable behavior or to instill desirable behaviors.

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Behavioral modification therapy

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Who says “Impetus for development is bidirectional.”

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Albert Bandura

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The person acts on the world as the world acts on the person.

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reciprocal determinism

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Also known as modeling pertains to the learning through watching and imitating models.

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Observational learning

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sense of one’s capability to master and achieve goals

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self-efficacy

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Stages in Piaget’s cognitive theory

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Sensorimotor stage (0 to 2 yrs)
Preoperational stage (2 to 7 yrs)
Concrete operational stage (7 to 11 yrs)
Formal operational stage (12 and above yrs)

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3 Interrelated Process of Cognitive Growth

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Organization
Adaptation
Equilibration

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A cognitive growth process wherein kids start to create categories or systems of knowledge.

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Organization

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A cognitive growth process wherein kids adjust to new information or environment. It is achieved through assimilation and accommodation.

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Adaptation

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A cognitive growth process wherein kids tend to seek balance among cognitive elements. It is achieved through balance between assimilation and accommodation.

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Equilibration

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these are set of organized patterns

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schemes

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Process of incorporating new information into an existing cognitive structure.

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Assimilation

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Process of changing a cognitive structure in order to include new information.

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Accommodation

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The gap between what a child can do alone and what the child can do with help.

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zone of proximal development (ZPD)

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temporary support to help a child master a task

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scaffolding

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5 systems/contextual influences in the Bioecological theory

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Microsystem
Mesosystem
Exosystem
Macrosystem
Chronosystem
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It is the bidirectional influences between the developing child and their immediate surroundings.
Examples: home, school, and peers

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Microsystem

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It is the interaction of 2 microsystems.

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Mesosystem

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Encompasses factors that do not directly affect a developing child.
Example: parent’s jobs

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Exosystem

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Pertains to the culture or society that frames the structures and relationships among the systems.
Examples: economic and political systems

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Macrosystem

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Considers when and how major events happen. It is the timing of events throughout the course of life.

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Chronosystem

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behaviors that developed to solve problems in adapting to an earlier environment

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evolved mechanism

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It is the study of distinctive behaviors of species of animals that have evolved to increase survival of species.

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Ethology

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It applies the application of Darwinian principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest to individual behavior.

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Evolutionary psychology

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participants chosen to represent a population

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sample

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selection of sample in a way that each person has an equal chance of being chosen.

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random selection

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The result of a random selection.

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random sample

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FORMS OF DATA COLLECTION

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Observation
Self-reports
Behavioral/Performance Measures

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An interview wherein participants answer the same set of questions.

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Structured interview

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An interview wherein researchers may have follow-up questions.

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Open-ended interview

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when participants fill up a paper

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survey/ questionnaire

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stated solely in terms of operations used to measure a phenomenon

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operational definition

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Study of links between neural processes and cognitive abilities.

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cognitive neuroscience

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BASIC RESEARCH DESIGNS

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Case study
Ethnographic study
Correlational study
Experiment

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It is an in-depth study of a single individual.

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Case study

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It is an in-depth study of a culture or subculture.

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Ethnographic study

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Attempts to find positive or negative relationships between variables.

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Correlational study

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It is a controlled procedure in which an experimenter controls the independent variable to determine its effects on the dependent variable.

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Experiment

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people who are to be exposed to the experimental manipulation or treatment

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experimental group

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people who do not receive the treatment

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control group

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variable in which experimenter has direct control

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independent variable

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variable that may or may not change as a result of changes in independent variable

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dependent variable

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assignment of participants in an experiment to groups in such a way that each person has an equal chance of being placed in any group

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random assignment

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observer lives with people in the activty being observed

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participant observation

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DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH DESIGNS

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Cross-sectional
Longitudinal
Sequential

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Data is collected from people of different ages at the same time.

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Cross-sectional

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Data is collected from the same person/s over a period of time.

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Longitudinal

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Data is collected on successive cross-sectional/longitudinal samples.

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Sequential

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ETHICS OF RESEARCH

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  • informed consent
  • avoidance of deception
  • protect respondents from harm and loss of dignity
  • privacy and confidentiality
  • right to decline or withdraw
  • correct any undesirable effects
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3 PRINCIPLES TO RESOLVE ETHICAL DILEMMAS

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  1. Beneficence
  2. Respect
  3. Justice
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Pertains to an investigator’s obligation to maximize potential benefits to participant and to minimize potential harm.

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Beneficence

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Put in regard the participant’s autonomy and protection of those who are unable to exercise their own judgement.

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Respect

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Inclusion of diverse groups together with sensitivity to any special impact the research may have on them.

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Justice

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