PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Lifesaving, Costs In English Law, Belmont Report
29 Apr 2016
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Ethics: conduct considered morally right or morally wrong as specified by codified and culturally ingrained principles, constraints, rules and guidelines. Ethical principles: collection of rules, institutionalized regulations, and professional ideals. Informed consent and when it can be used. Informed consent: in which the researcher tells prospective participants about the study and obtains written agreement to participate. Sometimes when it is unnecessary/impossible: archival studies using public records, risk-free experiments that telling the participants would influence biases and dis- credit genuine results, observational studies. Participants are given: nature of the study, any potential risk or inconvenience to them, procedure for ensuring the confidentiality of the data, voluntary nature of their cooperation and freedom to withdraw at any time. Since the belmont, expected that all proposed research studies carefully appraised by a panel of evaluators, an institutional review board (irb) Irb conducts a risk-benefits analysis: possibility harm may occur vs. overall benefi- cence.
