PSYC W1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institutional Review Board, Stanford Prison Experiment, Traumatic Brain Injury
3 Feb 2016
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Measured the willingness to obey, even when putting another person"s life at risk in response to nazi behavior. In conclusion found that a large percent of people are willing to continue to the end. Ethnically controversial, may emotionally & psychologically traumatize the participant. E. g no use of money to coerce a person to perform something he/she usually would not: apa code of ethics. Freedom of coercion: protection from harm, risk-benefit analysis. Chapter 2: methods in psychology (continued: representative people, case method: gathering scientific knowledge by studying single individual. Obama, serial killers, individuals that survived traumatic brain injury. The ethics of science: first, do no harm: ethical violations in research. Irb is allowed to do audits by visiting labs and find paperwork, has the power to close down labs and research: respecting animals. Time/resources/cost for choice of species: before research is performed, must propose to the iacuc for evaluation and approval.
