Objective 39
Summarize the ethical
guidelines for research on human subjects.
Explanation:
The American Psychological Association's ethics code tells researchers to do three things. The first thing is informed consent which is when a participant gets told enough about the experiment so that they can choose whether they wish to participate or not. The second thing is to protect the participants from harm and discomfort. The last thing researchers should do is debrief the participants. A debrief happens after the experiment and tells about the research. Most ethics committees screen research proposals and look out for the well being of participants.
The American Psychological Association's ethics code tells researchers to do three things. The first thing is informed consent which is when a participant gets told enough about the experiment so that they can choose whether they wish to participate or not. The second thing is to protect the participants from harm and discomfort. The last thing researchers should do is debrief the participants. A debrief happens after the experiment and tells about the research. Most ethics committees screen research proposals and look out for the well being of participants.
Example:
This website, http://www.socialpsychology.org/consent.htm, gives more information about what informed consent should be like. It said that informed consent should have 8 parts. They are the purpose of the research, expected duration, and procedures, their right to decline to participate and to withdraw from the research once participation has begun, the foreseeable consequences of declining or withdrawing, reasonably foreseeable factors that may be expected to influence their willingness to participate such as potential risks, discomfort, or adverse effects, any prospective research benefits, limits of confidentiality, incentives for participation, and whom to contact for questions about the research and research participants' rights. All these things make a good informed consent.
This website, http://www.socialpsychology.org/consent.htm, gives more information about what informed consent should be like. It said that informed consent should have 8 parts. They are the purpose of the research, expected duration, and procedures, their right to decline to participate and to withdraw from the research once participation has begun, the foreseeable consequences of declining or withdrawing, reasonably foreseeable factors that may be expected to influence their willingness to participate such as potential risks, discomfort, or adverse effects, any prospective research benefits, limits of confidentiality, incentives for participation, and whom to contact for questions about the research and research participants' rights. All these things make a good informed consent.
Example:
This website, http://psychology.concordia.ca/researchandcentres/ethics/debriefing/, gives more information on debriefing. It gave six things a debriefing should include. They are the name of the study, the experimenter and the faculty supervisor, the telephone and other contact information for the lab in which the study was conducted as well as contact information for the University Human Research Ethics Committee and the Psychology Department Ethics Committee, the nature of the study, some information about the design of the study, a brief statement about the importance or implications of the study, and a citation of one or two suggested articles or book chapters for further reading. A great debriefing is made up of these six things.
This website, http://psychology.concordia.ca/researchandcentres/ethics/debriefing/, gives more information on debriefing. It gave six things a debriefing should include. They are the name of the study, the experimenter and the faculty supervisor, the telephone and other contact information for the lab in which the study was conducted as well as contact information for the University Human Research Ethics Committee and the Psychology Department Ethics Committee, the nature of the study, some information about the design of the study, a brief statement about the importance or implications of the study, and a citation of one or two suggested articles or book chapters for further reading. A great debriefing is made up of these six things.