Psychology 2800E Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Speciesism, Ethology, General Position
9 Apr 2018
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The apa ethics code ethical principles discussed by the apa cover all professional activities of psychologists such as teaching, therapeutic situations, and research. Apa ethics code represents the consensus of the psychology profession about what is considered acceptable practice federal government requires institutions that receive federal funds to establish an institutional review board (irb) to approve all research on human participants. Irb must have at least 5 people, 1 who is not a scientist and 1 who is not affiliated with the institution. Commentary on deception many experiments require participants to be naive about the hypothesis. Apa requires that writings by psychologists be their own ideas presented in their own words with appropriate credit given to ideas from other people plagiarism: attempts to present another person"s work as your own scientific theft. Walter levy was found cheating in 1974 when trying to prove psychkinesis (psychic ability) in rats.
