PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Standard Deviation, Sperry Top-Sider, United States Public Health Service
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General principles competence (researcher should have knowledge of their area of work) integrity professional and scientific responsibility respect for people"s rights and dignity concern for others" welfare social responsibility. The six basic principals the code uses to offer a variety of standards. A lot of these key principals are the same. Key principles in psychological research cpa (2000) Respect for free and informed consent respect for vulnerable persons. Respect for privacy and confidentiality respect for justice and inclusiveness. Deception is only justified if you cannot do the procedure without deception: obtaining informed consent. Deception: allowing subjects to withdraw their participation from the study at any point at any time, data confidentiality (average results are reported, debriefing subjects (told what the purpose and hypothesis of the study was) Sperry"s split-brain research (seperated the brain to learn what would happen. Schanberg"s work with newborn rats (providing premature rats with stroking comforts) Animal research: arguments against utilitarian argument (prinicpals of equity to.