Modula 0.5 Quiz

What must a researcher do to fulfill the ethical principle of informed consent?

• Keep information about participants confidential.

• Protect participants from potential harm and compensate them for participation in a study.

• Provide participants with enough information about a study to enable them to make a rational decision about whether to participate.

• Explain the purpose of study and any deception in the study to participants after they participate.

Which ethical principle requires that participants be told about the true purpose of the research at the end of the study?

• Informed consent

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing

• Protection from physical harm

The laboratory environment is designed to

• exactly re-create the events of everyday life.

• re-create psychological forces under controlled conditions.

• re-create psychological forces under random conditions.

• provide the opportunity to do case study research.

Which of the following animal studies is most likely to

meet ethical principles and receive Institutional Review Board approval?

• Do monkeys that smoke get cancer?

• Will rats deprived of food for one week survive?

• What are the effects of raising kittens in isolation?

• Can dolphins learn simple language?

Which of the following accurately illustrates the correct order of the scientific process in psychological research?

• First, researchers interpret their results, and then they measure their variables, after which they identify hypotheses that align with their research design.

• First, researchers choose the best design, and then they interpret their results, after which they measure their variables.

• First, researchers measure their variables, and then they identify their hypotheses, after which they choose the best design for their study.

• First, researchers create hypotheses, and then they design their study to measure their variables, after which they interpret their results.

Researchers interested in studying stress gave 150 high school seniors a very difficult math exam. After the test, the researchers measured stress by examining physiological changes with extensive medical testing, which included drawing blood samples. When the test was finished, they shared the results with the students but did not publish individual data. Explain whether this study conforms to each of these ethical principles:

• Informed consent

• Debriefing

• Confidentiality

• Protection from harm

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