Lecture 3: Ethics

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Lecture 3 Ethics
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APAs Ethical Principles of Psychologists and
Code of Conduct

• General Principles vs Ethical Standards
• General Principles
• A. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
• B. Fidelity and Responsibility
• C. Integrity
• D. Justice
• E. Respect for Peoples Rights and Dignity

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Applications of Ethics to Human Research

• Risk (cost) vs. Benefit
• Informed consent
• Tell them what you can
• Warn them of risks
• Tell them they can withdraw

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Application of Ethics to Human Research

• Privacy and confidentiality
• Deception
• When is it justified?
• Debriefing
• Honesty

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Case Study Stress induced Analgesia

• Hypothesis Stress reduces pain
• Basic design Two groups of people will receive
  painful shocks. One group will be stressed while
  receiving shocks other wont

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Case Study Stress Induced Analgesia

• Students answer an ad in the school paper.
  Offered 200 for 1 hr of participation.
• Students sign in on sheet with age, weight and
  gpa of all participants.
• Students told shocks would be mild, like a sharp
  pin-prick. In fact shock was painfully intense.
• Students told theyd be watching movies to see
  what happened to pain perception when
  distracted or not.

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Case Study Stress Induced Analgesia

• Students hooked up to EEG machine
• Some students (stress group) saw movies with real
  gore. Other group saw bland documentary.
• During movies, students are shocked and
  measurements of EEG taken.
• After data collected, participants dismissed from
  experiment and leave.

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Research with Animals

• When might we use animals?
• Arguments of critics
• Animal protections

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Plagiarism An Ethical Violation in the Classroom

• Taking credit for work that is not your own.
• May be intentional or unintentionalin both
  cases, it is punishable and may be career-
  ending.
• It is, therefore, important to understand it in
  order to avoid it.
• Pleading ignorance is like pleading ignorance to
  a speeding ticket
• It is a type of cheating. APA ethics forbids it,
  and so does CSUB.

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Plagiarism

• Why is it unethical?
• Plagiarism includes
• Taking credit for others ideas
• Using others words without quoting/citing
• Using others language
• How to avoid plagiarism

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Feedback

• What was the most difficult or confusing thing in
  todays lecture?