Module 8: AP Psychology

What must a researcher do to fulfill the ethical principle of informed consent?

• Keep information about participants confidential.

• Provide financial compensation to the participants.

• Protect participants from potential harm.

• Provide participants with enough information about a study to enable a rational decision about whether to participate.

• Provide participants with a post-experimental explanation of the study.

Which ethical principle requires that at the end of the study participants be told about the true purpose of the research?

• Institutional review board approval

• Informed consent

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing

• Protection from physical harm

The laboratory environment is designed to

• exactly re-create the events of everyday life.

• re-create psychological forces under controlled conditions.

• re-create psychological forces under random conditions.

• minimize the use of animals and humans in psychological research.

• provide the opportunity to do case study research.

A researcher who gathers and analyzes data from student essay test responses without talking with the students about the study violates which ethical principle of human experimentation?

• informed consent

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

• debriefing

• coercion

A researcher who publishes the results of a case study might be most worried about violating which ethical principle of human experimentation?

• informed consent

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

• debriefing

• coercion