PSYC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Review Board, Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee, Sleep Deprivation
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Lecture 4: physical harm- loud noise, sleep deprivation, etc, stress milgram study, confidentiality and privacy- personal conditions, benefits, basic knowledge. Improvement of research or assessment techniques: practical outcomes: improving human welfare, benefits for researcher- advancement in career, benefits for participants- experimental therapy, only conduct study if the potential benefits outweigh the risks. If not, the study must be conducted using an alternative procedure: review boards- formalized the expectation that researcher engage in a cost-benefit analysis. Every institution that receives federal research funding (and almost all colleges) has two types of review boards. Institutional review board (irb) oversees research with human participants. Institutional animal care and use committee (iacuc)- oversees research w/ animals. Safety & deception concerns: safety- participants are not to be exposed, without volunteering, to physical or mental danger or discomfort, either during the investigation or afterward as a result of participation, deception- most happens in social psychology. Deception work can occur, but it must be approved by irb.
