PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Equal Opportunity, Scientific Misconduct, Mortality Salience
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Protecting physical & mental well-being of participants, obtaining consent, and ensuring confidentiality. Promoting the welfare of research participants: research ethics board (reb): committee of researchers and officials at an institution charged with the protection of human research participants. Weights potential risks to the volunteers against the possible benefits of the research. Requires that volunteers agree to participate in the research: weighing the risks and benefits of the research. Promoting health and well-being must be weight against the short-term risks. Mortality salience (made more aware of death) Determine whether study"s inherent risks are worth what can potentially be learned if the research goes forward. Reb serves as third party weighing risks/benefits without being personally involved. Nature of stimuli to which they will be exposed. Nature of any tasks they will complete. Any potential physical, psychological, or social risks involved. Steps that researchers have taken to minimize those risks.
