Research Ethics Quiz

The main purpose of research ethics is to:

• Ensure research is completed quickly

• Protect the rights, dignity, and welfare of participants

• Increase the complexity of research procedures

• Guarantee that results are statistically significant

Which of the following is a key principle of research ethics?

• Profit maximization

• Informed consent

• Data manipulation for clarity

• Ignoring participant privacy

Plagiarism in research refers to:

• Using one’s own ideas repeatedly

• Intentionally or unintentionally using others’ work without proper acknowledgment

• Publishing in multiple journals at once

• Misreporting the sample size

Informed consent must be obtained:

• Only if the research involves experiments

• Before participants are involved in the study

• After the research has been completed

• Only when the participants are minors

Fabrication in research means:

• Rewriting old studies in a new way

• Making up data or results that never existed

• Changing the research design midway

• Misplacing important documents

Which organization commonly provides ethical guidelines for research involving human subjects?

• UNESCO

• WHO

• Declaration of Helsinki

• IEEE

In professional integrity, conflict of interest occurs when:

• A researcher has no prior experience in the topic studied

• Personal or financial interests could influence research outcomes

• A researcher collaborates with multiple institutions

• Two researchers have different research methods

Which of the following best describes data falsification?

• Omitting results that contradict the hypothesis

• Using statistical tools to analyze raw data

• Repeating the experiment to confirm findings

• Recording responses from all participants accurately

Protecting participant confidentiality means:

• Keeping participants’ personal information secure and anonymous where possible

• Sharing participant data with other researchers freely

• Publishing full names in the research report

• Allowing access to participant data for marketing purposes

A professional researcher should:

• Avoid publishing results that challenge industry practices

• Report findings honestly, even if they do not support the original hypothesis

• Seek approval only for controversial topics

• Change results to make them more appealing