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Web Exercises

1. Go to your university’s institutional review board (IRB) website.

• Read the guidelines for submitting research proposals.
• Read sample proposals, consent forms, etc.
• What consistencies do you notice between your university’s IRB requirements and your textbook?
• Are there inconsistencies?

2. APA Human Research Protections

APA provides a variety of resources to help researchers understand how to ethically conduct research with human participants.

• Explore at least one link from each of the following tabs:
  • Legislation/Regulations
  • Guidance
  • Federal Offices
  • Training Resources
  • APA Resources
• Explore at least two links from the following tab:
  • Ethics Codes
• Why do you think there are multiple ethical codes?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of this?

3. Using a search engine, search for controversial or unethical psychology experiments.

• Select one of the experiments.
• Read about the experiment.
• What was unethical about the experiment?
• If it were proposed to an institutional review board today, would it be approved? Why or why not?