Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences
Third Edition
Web Exercises
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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?