PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Institutional Review Board, Belmont Report, Syphilis
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Participant asked to play the teacher role, giving a student shocks for incorrect answers. Both the student and the shocks were part of the cover story. In compliance with the experimenter, most of the participants gave painful shocks to the. Milgram wanted to test how far people would follow instructions, based on the obedience that nazi officers showed during wwii. Back then, they claimed to be only following orders. Nuremberg war crime trials (1946) nazi doctors experimented on prisoners for scientific reasons. Tuskegee syphilis study (1930s) low-income african american men were used as subjects to study the effects of syphilis. The participants weren t told of their illness and were denied the treatment until 1972, even though the cure (penicillin) was found in the. These lead to the creation of the belmont report (1979). Respect for persons: treating persons as autonomous agents and protecting those with diminished autonomy. Beneficence: minimizing possible harms and maximizing benefits.
