PSY 3392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Selection Bias, Data Mining, Specific Performance
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Chapter 3 ethical issues in the conduct of psychological research. Nazi medical research in wwii: medical experimentation on prisoners w/out consent resulting in death/trauma. Tuskegee experiment study to observe natural progression of untreated syphilis. Men were not told they had the disease and they were never given penicillin despite cure. Milgram experiment administered shocks for wrong answer in increasing intervals to unknowingly tested for people"s submission to authority: potential risk, deception, collect sensitive information, study vulnerable populations, power differential can lead to coercion. A subjective evaluation of the risks and benefits of a research project is used to determine whether the research should be conducted by considering: benefit to participants and society, consider quality of research, potential lower risk procedures. Nuremberg code (1947) established after wwii: voluntary research, informed consent, benefit must outweigh the cost. Declaration of helsinki (1974: research must be approved by the irb, respect individual and their right to make informed decisions and privacy.
