ethics 4

• -respect for autonomy
• -benfience and nonmaleficence
• -justice
• -trust
• -scientific integrity

-researcher needs to ensure that participants know what they are getting into and that they are free to decide whether or not to participate

-participants must give their consent through usally informed consent document.

-it is to be signed by research participant.

-outlines the purpose and procedures of a research study

consent procedures

-consent from parent or guardian and they need to undertstand the procedure

the researcher can still be sued if they knew or did not fully know the potential dangers of comitting this crime

-principle implies that researchers should do no harm

• -weigh the costs and benefits of research
• *determined by researcher
• *overeen by IRB

-ultimately benefits need to outweigh costs

-oversees all ethical issues of research

-w/o approval from these guys, researcher can be fired

"doing good"

"not doing harm"

• -costs and benefits are to be distributed fairly across participants
• *random assignments
• *care with control group
• **everyone is the study gets to a chance to do everything

-relationship of trust should be established with research participants

• -certain projects depend on the participant being unaware of features of the design
• *deception

• -informed consent= sheet
• -confidentiality
• -anonymity

milgram experiment

active and passive

-comission

-tell participant  something about experiment that isnt

ex) milgram exp. learning and memory but in realtiy it was obdience

-omission

- neglecting to tell a participant certain aspects of study. allows them to develop a wrong idea.

• ex) they think it is for something but its for another thing
• *small amount of passive is permissive

may be acceptable under certain circumstances

-fully inform participants what happened

-undo any negative effects

-NO double deception

• -care should be taken to ensure that scientific research leads to valid knowledge
• *research should be well designed
• *researcher should record and report data accurately

must avoid overstating and over interpreting things and faked data