PSYC 200W Chapter 15: ch15
16 Jan 2019
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Ethical issues in behavioral research: approaches to ethical decisions, 2 obligations. Provide info that enhances our understanding of behavioral processes and leads to improvement of human/animal welfare. Protect rights and welfare of the human/nonhuman participants they study: 3 approaches to resolve issues. Deontology: maintains that ethics must be judged in light of a universal moral code: certain actions are inherently unethical --> never be performed. Ethical skepticism: concrete and inviolate moral codes cannot be formulated: ethical principles are arbitrary and relative to culture and time, ethical decisions are a matter of each person"s own conscience. Basic knowledge = enhances our understanding of behavioral processes. Practical outcomes = directly improving welfare of human beings/animals. Benefits for research participants = experimental therapies, maybe enjoyable: potential costs. Informed consent form -- documentation: problems - Participants who are unable to give informed consent -- children, mentally retarded/out of touch with reality (psychotic) Ludicrous cases of informed consent ---public observation (impossible and unnecessary)
