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PSY-210
Ethics
Question | Answer |
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What is conformity? | The act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to that of the social group |
What is ecological validity? | The extend to which materials and setting match the real-life situation under investigation |
Impact of Milgram's work | There was a paradigm shift within personality psychology. Inspired new lines of research and shift to real-life situations within social psych. And ethical issues arose concerning psychological distress, use of deception and lack of informed consent. |
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)? | A committee that has been formally designated to approve, monitor, and review research involving humans with the aim to protect the rights and welfare of the research subjects |
How is deception typically used in research? | By the use of cover stories and confederates |
Explain experimental realism | The degree to which an experiment absorbs and involves its participants |
Explain mundane realism | The degree to which an experiment is only superficially similar to everyday situations |
What are conceal demand characteristics? | Cues in an experiment that tell the participant what behavior is expected |
What is informed consent? | Providing enough information about the study that enables the participants to choose whether or not they wish to participate |
Describe debriefing | Providing full disclosure about the nature of the research at conclusion of study session |
Explain the price of IRB | It is a complicated, painful process. Yields fewer high impact studies, resulted in a loss of information to the field of psychology, and reasoned balance. |