PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - American Psychological Association, Ethical Decision, Queen'S Privy Council For Canada

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: Erinn Squires

Document Summary

Inspired by the holocaust: classic study on obedience of authority, participants gave shocks to a man answering questions if he got them wrong. The voltage would go up for every question. They could hear the man being in pain (although it was faked) but the authority figure would tell them to keep shocking anyway. Most participants would still shock when they reached a fatal voltage: results challenged beliefs of being able to resist authority, heavily criticized for being unethical, led to development of ethical principles for experiments. Ethical research in canada: tri-council policy statement. Social sciences and humanities research council of canada (sshrc) Natural sciences and engineering research council of canada (nserc: nuremburg code, world medical association helsinki declaration, the belmont report, american psychological association ethics code, canadian researchers must: Comply with the canadian charter of rights and freedoms, canadian privacy of information laws, and relevant provincial laws. Tcps core principles: respect for persons, concern for welfare of participants.