The more knowledge we have of ourselves, the better off we will probably be, and the more likely it is that we can be helped or that we'll understand problems that arise. But serious issues come up with this kind of research. How far can and should an experimenter go in trying to find answers? The American Psychological Association has established ethical guidelines for experimenters.
Your Assignment:
State the 4 ethical principles put forth by the American Psychological Association and then state your opinion on the importance of these ethical principles.
Due: Sunday 2/7/10 by no later than 11:59p.m.
Monday, February 1, 2010
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Code A - Beneficence and Nonmalificence
ReplyDeleteThis states that psychologists strive to benefit with those they work and take to do no harm. In thier professional actions, psychologists seek to safegaurd the welfare and rights of those whom they interact professionally and other affected persons, and the welfare of animal subjectsof research. (www.apa.org) This is important becuase it states that psychologists must be professional in all cases and have a concern or input on the welfare of any subject including animals for research.
Code B Fidelity and Responsibility
This states that psychologists establish a relationship of trust with whom they work. They are to uphold professional standards of conduct, clarify thier professional roles and obligations, accept appropriate responsibility for their bahaviors, and seek to manage conflicts of interest that could lead to exploitation or harm. (www.apa.org) This means that they can develope a trusting relationship with thier co-workers or patients but protect that relationship from being exploited or harmed.
Code C Integrity
This states that psychologists should seek to promote accuracy, honesty, and truthfulness in the science, teaching, and practice of psychology. In these activities psychologists do not steal, cheat, or engage in fraud, subterfuge, or intentional misrepresentation of fact. (www.apa.org) This is important because it keeps professionalism away from ordinary life. It is helpful in keeping your work life away from your homelife.
Code D Respect for People's Rights and Dignity
This states that Psychologists respect the dignity and worth of all people, and the rights of individuals to privacy, confidentiality, and self-determination. Psychologists are aware that special safeguards may be necessary to protect the rights and welfare of persons or communities whose vulnerabilities impair autonomous decision making. Psychologists are aware of and respect cultural, individual, and role differences, including those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status and consider these factors when working with members of such groups. Psychologists try to eliminate the effect on their work of biases based on those factors, and they do not knowingly participate in or condone activities of others based upon such prejudices. (www.apa.org)
this is especially important because of the patient/physician relationship. If you have a subject whose trust in a specific doctor has been malformed in any way, that subject will not openly discuss possible problems and will withhold which would affect the progression of the research the psychologist may be doing.
Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Fidelity and Responsibility, Integrity, Justice.
ReplyDeletei think that you need them because if you don't have any ethnic principles then you caould just do waht ever you want
1) Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time. -This goes back to government and the freedom of the people. They shouldn't have to do something if they don't want to.
ReplyDelete2) Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation- This is important because if the studies gather unhonest information, it is inaccurate.
3) Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential. -People will most likely not be open and honest during the study if they're information will not remain confidential.
4) The experimenter has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of exesting risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation. -If people aren't informed of their risks and then they recieve an unanticipated risk, the people would be aggrivated.
1)Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time.
ReplyDelete2)Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation.
3) Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must reamain confidential.
4)The experimenter has the duty to access carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of existing risks and correct or remove any undersiable consequences of participation.
I think the importance of these ethcal principles is that they want you to make up your own discissions and experiments but with guidelines so that all experiments are done in a similiar way. If we didn't have the guidelines different people would look and some experiments in really didn't point of views.
1) Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at anytime.
ReplyDelete2)Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation.
3)Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential.
4)The experimenter has the duty to assess careful the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participates, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation.
O:I think all these are important because maybe some people don't want to be experimented on. Also, people have rights, that's the base of America is the people's rights so if you just tell them they have to do this and just go along with it people will get upset and you go against the foundation of our country.
1. Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time.
ReplyDelete2. Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation.
3. Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential
4. The experimenter has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of existion risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation.I think that are helpful because they help with daily life.
- The four ethical principles are
ReplyDelete1.) Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or with draw their participation at any time.
2.)Openness and honesty are essintial to experimentattion.
3.) Information obatined about a subject durig the course of a study must remain confidential.
4.) The experimenter has the duty at assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of exisiting risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation.
- I think these are important because it kind of tells the rules that comes with experimentation and what you can and cannot do. If people don't abide by these rules then things could get out of control and bad things might happen. Like animal testing, animals can't say, "no don't do that," so therefore its wrong to test things on them, especially if the testing is harmful.
1. Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time.
ReplyDelete2. Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation.
3. Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential.
4. The experimenter has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation.
I think all of these principles are really important so that the subject can trust the experimenter which is going to enable a better relationship which will make the results of the study more accurate if they trust the person performing the experiment. The subject should also feel more secure with how the test will go also.
1) Subjects always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw there participation at any time. This is important because nobody should ever be forced to take part in anything they don't want to be in.
ReplyDelete2) Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation. This is important because in order to get the best results out of the study, you have to be honest about the issues. You won't be accurate if you don't.
3) Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential. This I think is very important. No body wants someone else to go around and tell others that your crazy. If information is not kept private then there can be no trust. And if there is no trust then experiments like this don't work.
4) The experimenter has the duty to carefully assess the possibility of any potential risks. This probably helps if there is someone crazy. They should tell that person, so they can be helped!
1.) Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time. I agree with this because it is important if a person doesn't want to be involved in the experiment they shouldn't have to.Its their right.
ReplyDelete2.)Openness and honestly are essential to experimentation. And I honestly think this is important because its important to be honest so you get all the right information.
3.)Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential and this is important because some of the information given is very private so I don't think it should be talked to or about to anyone else unless given permission.
4.)The experimenter has the duty to asses carefully the possiblity of any potential risks, physical or mental, to paticipants, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequence of participation. This is important becasue you should be honest about the type of test you give the person and the result.
1. Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time; 2. Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation; 3. Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential; 4. The experimenter has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to particpants, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation. People have the right to decline things and they don't have to participate in experiments if they don't want to. If the subject lies or is dishonest, the results will be inaccurate and will not be of any help. Like most healthcare offices, every experiment must be kept confidential for the subject, unless the subject releases the information at their own will. The experimenter must be careful as to not cause any additional problems for the subject resulting from the experiment itself. All of these ethic rules are essential in experimentation because people must feel safe and know that their identity and information will be protected in every experiment and situation.
ReplyDelete1.) Subjects must always have the right to decline participation in an expirement or withdraw their participation at any time.
ReplyDelete2.)Openness and honesty are essential to expirementation.
3.) Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential.
4.) The expirementor has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation.
I think these are all sound guidelines but I'd like to know how closely they are followed. In a perfect world it wouldn't be a problem to be part of an expirement becasue everything would be safe and confidential but I've seen enough of the world to know that bad stuff happens even when there are measures in place to prevent against it. Also a major flaw I see is that it tells how all risks should be made known to those people but most expirements are expiremnets becasue scientists aren't sure about everything in there test, so what if a problem springs up that they didn't know would happen. So I think these guidelines are important but that the people involved in such expirements should be very wary because in the end the only one looking out for them is themselves.
1) Standard 3: Human Relations deals with unfair discrimination, sexual harassment, other harassment, avoiding harm, multiple relationships, ect. This all deals with Relationships twards other humans, either it is good or bad.
ReplyDelete2)Standard 4: Privacy and Confidentiality deals with maintaining confidentiality, limits of confidentiality, recording, disclosers,
consulations, and the use for confidential information for other purposes.
3)Standard 5: Advertising and Other Public Statements deal with avoidance or false or deceptice statements, statements by others,
descriptions of workshops and non-degree-granting educational programs, media presentations, testimonials, and in-person solicitation.
4)Standard 10: Therapy deals with consent to therapy, therapy for coupels or families, group therapy, providing therapy to those served by others, sexual intimaces with current therapy clients, sexual intimacies with relatives or signigicant others, therapy with formal sexual partners, interruption of therapy, and termination therapy.
1. The subject always has the right to decline participation in an experiment or withdraw their participation at any time. This is important because people should have to rigt to choose what they want and don't want to do.
ReplyDelete2. Openness and honesty are essential to experimentation. I believe this is important as well because if the person being interviewed is lying then the interviewer is collecting false information.
3. Information obtained about a subject during the course of a study must remain confidential. People like to have privacy especially if it about something that you really don't want the public to know thats why this principle is important
4. The experimenter has the duty to assess carefully the possibility of any potential risks, physical or mental, to participants, inform them of existing risks, and correct or remove any undesirable consequences of participation. This is important because if the studier were to make the subject feel inferior then the studier would have to tell the subject what they were being studied for at the end of the session.
Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Fidelity and Responsibility, Integrity, Justice.
ReplyDeletei believe that they are important because is sets lemits and guide lines that psychologist need to stic to.