PSYC 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: Institutional Review Board, Veterinary Medicine, Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee

• School: UPenn
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 001
• Professor: Caroline J.Connolly

Document Summary

There are ethical issues to consider in research with human paricipants. For ethical and pracical reasons, researchers cannot always use the experimental method. Manage guidelines regarding research that ensures the health and well- being of all study paricipants. Made up of administrators, legal advisors, scholars, community members. --> at least one member must not be a scienist. Four main issues addressed by irbs: privacy o o o. Anonymity - researchers do not collect personal idenifying info. Paricipants" knowledge that they are being studied: relaive risks of paricipaion o o o. Risk/beneit raio is an analysis of whether the research is important enough to jusify puing a paricipant at risk. Informed consent - paricipant must be noiied of a risk before agreeing to paricipate. Paricipants must be given all relevant info about the risks before being part of an experiment. Means paricipants make a knowledgeable decision to paricipate.