PSYC 2030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nules, Belmont Report, Primum Non Nocere
10 Dec 2015
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Active deception sometimes described as deception by commission, it involves actively manipulating the truth by presenting the research participants with false info or using some other ruse to directly trick them. Belmont report landmark report by a national commission in the 1970s delegated the responsibility to protect the rights and welfare of human participants in biomedical and behavioural research. Beneficence the aspirational ideal to do good, for example, by maximizing the societal and scientific benefits of research. Confidentiality protection of research participants or survey respondents" disclosures against unwarranted access. Debriefing process of disclosing to participants more about the full nature of the research in which they participated and, if an active or passive deception was used, why it was believed to be necessary. Double deception deception embedded in what the research participant thinks is the official debriefing; double deception is unethical because it leaves participants with a lie.
