PSYB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cherry Picking, Penicillin, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council
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Lecture 1: ethics and standards for scientific inquiry. Teaching the participant memory and punishing the participant every time they get it wrong: the shock increases for every wrong answer. This is an important experiment to look at authority. Belmont report: ethical guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research. Has three types of principle: principle 1: beneficence. Do no harm maximizing benefits for the research project and minimizing risks to research participants. It is all about risk-benefit analysis, some kinds of risk are: Risk of physical harm, including drugs, or sleep deprivation. Risk of stress, including asking about traumatic events, or false feedback about performance. Risk of losing privacy and confidentiality, including responses to sensitive topics such as sexual behaviour or family violence: in experiments such as the milgram"s shocking procedure, there is always a risk no matter what. Such kind of risk can be risk of stress due to psychological or physiological stress in this experiment.
