PSY 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee, Institutional Review Board, Belmont Report
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Tuskegee syphilis study: milgram"s obedience experiment: tested obedience with shock generator; the. Shock victim was an insider of the experiment who purposely got answers wrong and didn"t actually get hurt. Milgram found that most people would go to the highest level of shock if an authority figure told them to. This was unethical because it is traumatizing for the individual; however, the individual was debriefed afterwards. 3 principles of the belmont report: respect for the persons: informed consent, protection of vulnerable populations (risks of study, beneficence: cost-benefit analysis for participants and for society o o. In the apa ethical principles there are 5 general ethical principals and 10 specific ethical standards (different from belmont!) Institutional review boards (irb: composition: set of researchers from the university; job is to review the ethical issues around a particular study, procedures: applications, training for researchers and research assistants.
