Ethical Research
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Ethical Research II
Foiling Little Green Men
100
The principle that research should have beneficial effects while minimizing any harmful effects
What is BENEFICENCE?
100
The fabrication of data.
What is FRAUD?
100
This way of knowing is a combination of rationalism and empiricism.
What is the SCIENTIFIC APPROACH?
100
A review committee established to review research proposals.
What is an INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD?
100
An interrelated set of concepts that is used to explain a body of data and to make predictions about the results of future experiments.
What is a THEORY?
200
In research ethics, the principle that participants in an experiment be informed in advance of all aspects of the research that might influence their decision to participate.
What is INFORMED CONSENT?
200
A basic assumption of science - that there are cause and effect relationships in the universe (i.e., lawfulness).
What is DETERMINISM?
200
Specifies precisely how a phenomenon is measured or produced.
What is an OPERATIONAL DEFINITION?
200
An explanation of the purposes of the research that is given to participants following their participation in the research.
What is DEBRIEFING?
200
Another name for a "testable theory".
What is a SOLVABLE PROBLEM?
300
The principle that individuals in research investigations are capable of making a decision of whether to participate.
What is AUTONOMY?
300
A method of acquiring knowledge without reason or inference; making decisions based on information that you cannot articulate.
What is INTUITION?
300
Can be answered using ordinary capacities (sensory experiences).
What are SOLVABLE PROBLEMS/EMPIRICAL QUESTIONS?
300
A procedure for studying behavior in which individuals are asked to indicate how they would respond to a given situation rather than being observed in action in the situation.
What is ROLE PLAYING?
300
The empirical testing of alternative behavioral theories in order to rule out some of them.
What is the GOAL OF PSYCHOLOGY?
400
The principle that all individuals and groups should have fair and equal access to the benefits of research participation as well as potential risks of research.
What is JUSTICE?
400
One of the Tri-Council's principles that states that people must be capable of deciding whether to participate in a study.
What is RESPECT FOR FREE AND INFORMED CONSENT?
400
The acquisition and persistence of superstitions.
What is TENACITY?
400
Anonymous questionnaires, surveys, educational tests, and naturalistic observation in public places.
What is EXEMPT RESEARCH?
400
States that the methods of evaluating new evidence relevant to a particular theory must always include the possibility that the data will falsify the theory.
What is the FALSIFIABILITY CRITERION?
500
Research that involves recording routine physiological data, moderate exercise by healthy volunteers, research on perception, cognition, game theory, or test development that does not involve stress or manipulate behavior.
What is MINIMAL RISK RESEARCH?
500
Includes a description of the study and the sample to be used, methodology, consent and debriefing, and a risk analysis.
What is an ETHICS FORM/ETHICS APPLICATION?
500
The principle that states that when two theories have the same explanatory power, the simpler theory is preferred
What is PARSIMONY?
500
In the CPA Code of Ethics, the principle that is ranked MOST IMPORTANT.
What is RESPECT FOR DIGNITY OF PERSONS?
500
The demise of this well-known psychologist's theory can be traced in part to the failure of his theory to satisfy the falsifiability criterion.
Who is FREUD?
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