STC 262 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Factorial, Euclidean Vector, Design Of Experiments
11 Oct 2018
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MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
● Common Rule
○ Protections for pregnant women, prisoners, children and human fetuses
● When is it required that researchers follow Common Rule regulations?
○ All human subjects research conducted by institutions that receive federal
funding
● The Belmont Report: three ethical principles of how to treat human subjects
○ Respect for persons
■ People should know how they are being researched and have autonomy
to back out
○ Justice
■ No one group should be used as subjects so that another group can
benefit
■ Risk distributed
■ Ex: mentally ill children chosen for a study over non-mentally ill children
○ Beneficence
■ We should minimize risks
● Research design ethics
○ Intentional deception
■ There are times we need to intentionally deceive people to get the most
accurate information
■ Ethical to the extent that it is necessary to obtain accurate data and
benefits outweigh harm
○ Confederates
■ Someone who is working for a researcher but pretending to be a research
participant - involves deception
■ Manipulates their reactions to other research participants to deceive them
○ Debriefing
■ Telling the person this is what we asked you to do and why
■ Way of counteracting the deception as well as showing respect
○ Video/audio recording
■ Research participant has to consent to being recorded
● Building a literature review
○ Identify key terms
■ RQ: Do patients comply more with physicians who use humor than
those that don’t.
○ Types of sources
■ Primary and secondary sources
■ Refereed sources
● Creating and maintaining high quality
■ Specific types
● Scholarly journals
● Government reports
● Handbooks and encyclopedias
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● Scholarly books
● Conference papers
● Textbooks
● Websites
● Finding sources
○ Databases
■ Communication and Mass Media Complete
■ PsycInfo
■ Google Scholar
○ Reference list
○ Search strategies
■ Key terms
■ Combine terms with “and” / “or”
■ Title
■ Author
● References - APA style
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Document Summary
Protections for pregnant women, prisoners, children and human fetuses. All human subjects research conducted by institutions that receive federal funding. The belmont report: three ethical principles of how to treat human subjects. People should know how they are being researched and have autonomy to back out. No one group should be used as subjects so that another group can benefit. Ex: mentally ill children chosen for a study over non-mentally ill children. There are times we need to intentionally deceive people to get the most accurate information. Ethical to the extent that it is necessary to obtain accurate data and benefits outweigh harm. Someone who is working for a researcher but pretending to be a research participant - involves deception. Manipulates their reactions to other research participants to deceive them. Telling the person this is what we asked you to do and why. Way of counteracting the deception as well as showing respect.
