Ethics in Research Scenarios

Ethics in Research Scenarios

A researcher plans to conduct a study of effectiveness of a teacher training course in math. The protocol states
that the researcher plans to have students complete a standardized math test and interview teachers about the
effectiveness of their training and how they felt the training affected their teaching style and the impact that the
change in their teaching had on their students learning.
 A researcher plans to conduct a study about friendship among college women. The researcher plans to recruit pairs of girls
to be interviewed together to discuss the nature of their friendship. Then the researcher will interview the students separately
and ask questions about their concerns about their friendship. Finally, the researcher will bring the girls back together to
discuss the findings of their separate discussions. In that final interview, the researcher will state that one of the girls made
negative statements about the other to observe how the subjects resolve the conflict arising from the negative statements.
This conflict will be videotaped Ethics in Research Scenarios .

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 A researcher has assigned a class project that involves students conducting random surveys of students in Bone Student
Center. The students will develop their own survey instruments and determine the topic they will be surveying.
 A researcher proposes to conduct a study of elderly participants, aged 70 and up to assess the effects of physical training on
physical strength and bone mass. The training will involve repetitions with weights and walking on a treadmill. The
proposed duration of the study is six months. Participants will be recruited from a senior citizens center.
 A researcher proposes to study pregnant adolescents who no longer live at home. The study will involve collecting
information on drug use, dietary habits, residence information and childcare behaviors once they give birth.
 Dr. Critchenhead conducted a successful study and then published the results. To illustrate how subjects operated the test
equipment, he included in the published article a picture of one of the subjects performing the experimental task.
 Standing in the shower late one night, Dr. Vole thought of a revolutionary new experiment that would change the face of all
Psychology. The next morning at 8 a.m., he located some subjects and began conducting the study.
 Dr. Roland conducted research on how much established drug abusers liked the effects of experimental new drugs. To
locate subjects, he placed signs in areas often frequented by homeless people, offering volunteers $1000 for participating in
the study, which involved three weeks’ stay in a research hospital Ethics in Research Scenarios .
 It was late in the quarter and Professor Palamino was having trouble recruiting subjects to be in his research project on the
effects of disgusting smells on learning processes. Thus, he announced to his Theories of Personality class that he would
offer any student 5 points extra credit for serving in the study.
 As part of the requirements for his Research Methods course, Dr. Weiner assigned each student to participate as a subject in
3 research studies offered by the Psychology Department. Each experiment was worth 10% of a student’s course grade.
 In a study of childrens’ reactions to stress, Dr. Fang showed a room of 20 children a scary, blood-and-guts “slasher” movie,
then observed them interacting in a special play room. Just as the observation period was ending, a fire alarm rang and the
building had to be evacuated. Many of the children could not be located again when it was time to return to the building.
 In the 1950s Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments on obedience to authority, in which subjects were told were
asked by a researcher in a formal-looking white lab coat to deliver potent electric shocks to a “learner” in another room
whenever the learner made a mistake. In reality, the learner was an assistant of the experimenter, instructed to make
mistakes and to scream when the electric shocks — actually bogus ones — were delivered Ethics in Research Scenarios.