PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stanford Prison Experiment, Nuremberg Code, Belmont Report

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201W
• Professor: Barbara Adler

Document Summary

Ethics codes have evolved over time and were heavily in uenced by two major unethical research studies: nazi-conducted research on concentration camp victims, which led to the. Tuskegee syphilis study, which led to the belmont report. Ethics are a system of moral principles and standards. If you are a member of an organization that would like to gather information on internal employee satisfaction or performance, the research does not need to go through a review process unless for the following reasons: It is not an aspect of training or employment. Results are intended to be used for research purposes at any time. Research in public domain (stats canada surveys) do not classify as research that needs to be reviewed by an ethics board. Ethical concerns must be considered during every point of a study, when it is designed, during data collection, during data analysis, retention and storage.