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As you have learned throughout your courses, adherence to ethical principles is paramount in the field of psychology. However, many psychological experiments of the past would not be allowed under today’s standards.
Choose an influential experiment in the field of psychology that violated present-day ethical guidelines. The following website (Mental Floss, 2012) may be useful in choosing a study, but you may also choose one that is not listed there:http://mentalfloss.com/article/52787/10-famous-psychological-experiments-could-never-happen-today.
Briefly describe the study. Then, taking into consideration the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (American Psychological Association, 2002), discuss at least 2 guidelines that were violated and how. Describe how violating these guidelines was or could have been harmful to participants.
Given your knowledge of ethical guidelines, re-design the experiment you chose so the same hypothesis could be addressed in an ethical research study.
In all sections of your Assignment, particular attention should be paid to the General Principles (http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx?item=3) and standards for research (http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx?item=11) in the ethical code. Some concentration areas also have their own ethical code, and this should be referred to as well.
Addictions: http://www.naadac.org/code-of-ethics
Behavior Analysis: http://www.bacb.com/index.php?page=57
Students with a Child Development or Industrial/Organizational concentration should refer to the APA code above.
Your paper should be 3–4 pages, not including the title page and reference page. It should include an introduction and conclusion, and you must use at least 3 academic references to support your ideas. References must be in APA format, including in-text citations and a reference list.
References
American Psychological Association. (2002). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. Retrieved fromhttp://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx?item=1
Mental Floss. (2012). 10 famous psychological experiments that could never happen today. Retrieved fromhttp://mentalfloss.com/article/52787/10-famous-psychological-experiments-could-never-happen-today
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The researchers should follow the standards of APA when they carry out their
research. The researchers should consider standards such as consent, being honest and
disclosing the relevant information to the participants. However, this started after the APA
standards were designed and implemented. These standards rule out numerous psychological
experiments as an unethical and inappropriate method to research. This paper discusses one of
the many experiments conducted before the introduction of the APA code of conduct. It
focuses on a research conducted in the year 1968 by Bibb Latané and Darley John.
The research used in this assignment is known as bystanders. It was conducted in 1968
by John Darley and Bibb Latané. This experiment was ethical before the introduction of the
APA 2002 guidelines. This was to evaluate how people would respond to a situation when in
a group and as an individual. They were trying to understand why people did not stop the
murder of Kitty. People witnessed the murders but they did not respond to it. It was only one
person who responded when it was too late to save Kit...
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