PSYC 335 Week 3 Quiz

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Question 1

Which of the following constitutes deception?  

·         having a confederate pretend to be a research participant  

·         telling participants a study is about friendship when it is really about racism  

·         omitting specific details of the study from the consent form  

·         All of these are deception.

Question 2

An IRB or Institutional Review Board  

·         only gets involved in the research process once a researcher has committed an ethical violation.  

·         reviews research for potential ethical problems before it is conducted.  

·         is completely optional at most colleges and universities.  

·         is composed entirely of people who are not affiliated with the college or university at which the research is being conducted.

 Question 3

Deception   

·         can be used in psychological research if the benefits outweigh the risks. 

·         is used in most psychological research.  

·         violates the ethical principles of responsibility and integrity and is never considered ethical.  

·         violates the ethical principle of justice and is never considered ethical.

Question 4

Deception is sometimes considered unethical and coercion is always considered unethical.

Question 5

In psychological research it is fairly common for the risks to be mostly to    ["", "", ""]   and the benefits to be mostly to    ["", "", ""]   .

Question 6

In psychological research, deception is    

·         encouraged. 

·         considered unethical and not allowed.  

·         allowed only if participants are told in advance that they will be deceived.  

·         allowed if certain conditions are met.

Question 7

If we strive to make psychological research reflective of the experiences of a larger number of people from different countries and cultural groups, it is important to recruit researchers from diverse backgrounds because having Western researchers conduct research with people from a bunch of other backgrounds and countries could potentially violate the ethical principle of 

·         competence.  

·         integrity.  

·         respect for people's rights and dignity.   

·         beneficence and nonmaleficence.

Question 8

Having participants sign consent forms    

·         may not be an adequate method of obtaining consent if participants are unable to understand them. 

·         means that participants are not legally allowed to sue the researchers.  

·         is necessary in all psychological research.  

·         is the only way to obtain informed consent.

Question 9

In psychological research, justice refers to  

·         the rights of every member of the population to participate in every study.  

·         the rights of participants to sue researchers who act unethically.   

·         making sure the risks and benefits are equally distributed across participants. 

·         the responsibility researchers have to focus on topics related to social change.

Question 10

As you will learn later in this class, samples in psychological research have typically not been very diverse, focusing mainly on college students from Western countries. This narrow focus may violate the ethical principle of    

·         justice.  

·         respect for people's rights and dignity.  

·         inclusion. 

·         coercion.