Unregulated Research
A study conducted in 1963, where participants thought they had administered fatal electric shocks to confederates (actors) in a study about obedience.
What are Milgram’s Studies on Obedience?
The principle that states: "Individuals should be treated as autonomous agents. Persons with diminished autonomy are entitled to protection,"
What is Respect for Persons?
Often referred to as the "Father of American Psychology".
Who is William James?
The group charged with the protection of human subjects that are a part of research endeavors.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
The section at the end of an APA formatted article where all sources used in the creation and production of the study are cited in alphabetical order.
What is the Reference section?
For the past 60 years, this individual's cells have been cultured and used in experiments ranging from determining the long-term effects of radiation to testing the live polio vaccine. Their cells were commercialized and have generated millions of dollars in profit for the medical researchers who patented her tissue.
Who was Henrietta Lacks?
Children, incarcerated peoples, pregnant women, and people with diminished mental capabilities.
What are vulnerable populations?
A German philosopher who was the first person to use the term "psychology".
Who is Christian Wolff?
An in-text citation style that requires one to cite a source at the end of the sentence.
What is a parenthetical in-text citation?
A type of research method that usually relies on numerical data and statistical analysis to draw conclusions. Examples include experiments, quasi-experiements, and correlational studies.
What is a quantitative study?
At this particular University, an experiment was conducted where, though no physical violence was allowed, the participants experienced extreme psychological damage such as disorganized speech and uncontrollable crying.
What is Standford University?
Research procedure, the purpose of the study, possible risks/benefits, and alternative procedures.
What should be included on the informed consent form?
A Kemetic record of 48 cases containing the oldest known descriptions of signs and symptoms of injuries of the spinal column and spinal cord. Also identified the brain, meninges, and cerebral spinal fluid.
What is the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus?
The section located at the very beginning of an APA formatted article that summarizes the purpose and content of the research study.
What is an abstract?
The document written in 1976 that identifies basic ethical principles and guidelines that address ethical issues arising from the conduct of research with human subjects.
What is the Belmont Report?
The organization responsible for funding the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment which ran from 1932-1972 and involved 600 Black men and their families.
What is the United States Public Health Service (USPHS)?
The ethical principle that states researchers should, "Develop relationships based on trust with other researchers and research participants,"
What is Fidelity and Responsibility?
A school of psychological thought that “emphasizes observable behavior over internal mental processes.”
What is Behaviorism?
A type of review that encompasses minimal risk studies (e.g. traditional qualitative studies or survey research).
A type of training that educates colleges, universities, researchers and healthcare professionals in the area of research ethics. It also, enhances the knowledge and professionalism of investigators, staff, and students conducting research in the United States and internationally.
What is CITI training?
This experiment brought about the following criticism: "Experimentation on children, even with parental informed consent, is illegal unless it is in the interests of the child."
What are the Willowbrook Hepatitis Studies?
Led to the establishment of the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research, mandated that all research must be approved by an Institutional Review Board, and that researchers must obtain permission from participants before conducting research.
What is the National Research Act (1974)?
Established the Psychology Department at Howard University in 1928 and is often referred to as the "Father of Black Psychology".
Who is Francis C. Sumner?
Please properly cite this article:
Last name, First initial. Middle initial., & Last name, First initial. Middle initial. (year published). Title of article. Title of journal, volume number (issue number), page number span of article. DOI address.
A tactic sometimes used in research studies where the researcher deliberately misleads research participants. Participants may be given false information about the purpose of the experiment and a confederate is often introduced as a participant.
What is active deception?