Do Now AP Psychology Ethics

All of the following are American Psychological Association ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT:

• Research may not involve deception.

• Participation must be voluntary.

• Participants must be informed of potential risks.

• Participants must be offered alternative activities if research participation is a course requirement.

• Participants’ right to privacy must be protected.

Ethical principles developed by the American Psychological Association help ensure that human participants in psychological research

• get paid for their time and trouble

• have not participated in similar research in the past

• are protected from physical and psychological harm

• understand the hypotheses of the researcher before they take part

• keep the purposes of the research project confidential

Which of the following best describes the response of members of the American Psychological Association to ethical issues in research?

• They have just begun to address such issues.

• They disclaim ethical concerns regarding research.

• They have developed codes of ethics for research with human participants only.

• They have developed codes of ethics for research with animal subjects only.

• They have developed codes of ethics for research with both human participants and animal subjects.

A researcher uses debriefing when he

• uses deception in a study

• has a study approved by the Institutional Review Board

• has a study approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

• explains the purpose of a study before the study begins

• explains the true purpose of a study immediately after the study is complete

Which of the following scenarios is regulated by federal law?

• Dr. James, a psychologist, is friends with Ms. Smith, whose daughter needs psychological treatment. Ms. Smith asks Dr. James whether he would counsel her daughter.

• Dr. Mast, a psychologist, has a client, Tim, who threatens to seriously harm his brother, Carl. Tim has a history of serious violence and the means to carry out the threat; therefore, Dr. Mast must inform Carl.

• Dr. Ortega, a psychologist, is seeing the Anconas for couples therapy and decides he needs to see them each individually in addition to seeing them as a couple.

• Dr. Kite, a psychologist, is a member of both the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

• Nona, a college student, conducts an experiment without gaining permission from either her professor or the head of the psychology department at her university.