THE FEDERAL REGULATIONS SBE COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMS 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED
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✔✔What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) charged with? (There may be more
than one correct answer. Please be sure to select all correct answers.) - ✔✔Protecting
the rights and welfare of human subjects.
- Assuring that all applicable institutional policies and federal regulations related to
research with human subjects are followed.
- Reviewing subject recruitment materials and strategies.
✔✔Which of the following is an example of how the principle of beneficence is applied
to a study involving human subjects? - ✔✔Ensuring that risks are reasonable in
relationship to anticipated benefits.
✔✔According to the Belmont Report, the moral requirement that there be fair outcomes
in the selection of research subjects, expresses the principle of: - ✔✔justice
✔✔The Belmont principle of beneficence requires that: - ✔✔Potential benefits justify the
risks of harm.
✔✔The researcher's failure to protect research subjects from deductive disclosure is the
primary ethical violation in which of the following studies? - ✔✔Harvard "Tastes, Ties,
and Time (T3)" study (2006-2009)" study
✔✔Humphreys collecting data for the Tearoom Trade study under the pretense that he
was a lookout is an example of a violation of the principle of: - ✔✔respect for persons
✔✔According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the
definition of research with human subjects? - ✔✔A developmental psychologist
videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care givers to determine
which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression.
✔✔A professor at Big State University is writing a biography about Bill Gates and
conducting oral histories with all of Bill Gates' friends, family members and business
acquaintances. The researcher submits the research proposal to the institution's IRB.
What action can he expect by the IRB? - ✔✔The IRB will not review this study because
it is not research as defined by the federal regulations.
✔✔According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the
definition of research with human subjects? - ✔✔An analysis of aggregate data
comparing statewide high school graduation rates provided by the State Department of
Public Instruction, using county tax information
EXAMS 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED
A+
✔✔What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB) charged with? (There may be more
than one correct answer. Please be sure to select all correct answers.) - ✔✔Protecting
the rights and welfare of human subjects.
- Assuring that all applicable institutional policies and federal regulations related to
research with human subjects are followed.
- Reviewing subject recruitment materials and strategies.
✔✔Which of the following is an example of how the principle of beneficence is applied
to a study involving human subjects? - ✔✔Ensuring that risks are reasonable in
relationship to anticipated benefits.
✔✔According to the Belmont Report, the moral requirement that there be fair outcomes
in the selection of research subjects, expresses the principle of: - ✔✔justice
✔✔The Belmont principle of beneficence requires that: - ✔✔Potential benefits justify the
risks of harm.
✔✔The researcher's failure to protect research subjects from deductive disclosure is the
primary ethical violation in which of the following studies? - ✔✔Harvard "Tastes, Ties,
and Time (T3)" study (2006-2009)" study
✔✔Humphreys collecting data for the Tearoom Trade study under the pretense that he
was a lookout is an example of a violation of the principle of: - ✔✔respect for persons
✔✔According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the
definition of research with human subjects? - ✔✔A developmental psychologist
videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care givers to determine
which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression.
✔✔A professor at Big State University is writing a biography about Bill Gates and
conducting oral histories with all of Bill Gates' friends, family members and business
acquaintances. The researcher submits the research proposal to the institution's IRB.
What action can he expect by the IRB? - ✔✔The IRB will not review this study because
it is not research as defined by the federal regulations.
✔✔According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the
definition of research with human subjects? - ✔✔An analysis of aggregate data
comparing statewide high school graduation rates provided by the State Department of
Public Instruction, using county tax information
