Research Ethics

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Chapter 2

• Research Ethics

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Research with Humans

• Conflicting requirements of
• Producing meaningful results
• Respecting the rights of participants
• Institutional Review Boards
• Ensuring participants are volunteers
• Informed consent
• Deception

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Research with Humans

• Treating participants well
• Debriefing
• Honor commitments
• Confidentiality and anonymity
• Invasiveness
• CREDO Participants should never leave the study
  feeling worse than when they arrived

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Research with Animals

• Why use animals in research?
• The issue of animal rights
• Speciesism
• Defense of animal research
• APA code for animal research
• Caring for animals
• Justifying study
• Educational purposes

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Scientific Fraud

• Types of Fraud
• Plagiarism
• Falsifying data
• Ways to ensure that falsifying data doesnt occur
• Why falsifying data goes unnoticed