PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Internal Validity, Penicillin, Belmont Report
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Protects reputation of psychology as a science. Helps ensure participants stay: if participants know and understand procedures were reviewed and signed off on by an ethics committee, they know they"ll be safe and may potentially benefit. Don"t want to harm people intentionally: there might be something in your study that an ethics committee would find harmful. Done on people who had syphilis before penicillin was found to cure the illness. After the people past away, autopsies were done. During the time of the study, found out about penicillin"s benefits, but it was not provided to those in the study: milgram. Studies on obedience to authority after wwii. Milgram was interested in why people during the war listened to nazis. Teacher watched learner being strapped into chair: learner expresses concern over heart condition . Shock generator panel 15 to 450 volts: teacher was to shock the learner when he answered a question incorrectly.
