ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
PSY301 Midterm (Lecture 5) Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Participant or Subject
✓✓ Participant
Trying to Level the Playing Field
✓✓ The researcher can assume that the participant is
conferring authority, be
responsible with it
What a psychologist can say does more damage than a
layperson
Participants deserve courtesies: be present, be prompt, be
prepared, be polite, be private, and be professional
IRB
✓✓ A committee that holds research to high ethical standards
Every institution that receives federal funds must have an
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Three categories of review
- Exempt: minimal risk
- Expedited: Risk no greater than encountered in daily life
- Full
IRB: Info for proposal
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ • Purpose
• Relevant background and rationale
• Participant population
• Experimental design and methodology
• Any incentives that are offered for participation
• Risks and benefits to the participants
• Privacy and confidentiality
Elements of Informed Consent
✓✓ Competence
- Ability to make well-reasoned decision and to give consent
meaningfully
Knowledge
- Nature of experiment, available alternatives, potential risks &
benefits
Volition
- Agreement provided willingly and free from coercion
- Freedom to withdraw at any time
Dispensing with Informed Consent
PSY301 Midterm (Lecture 5) Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Participant or Subject
✓✓ Participant
Trying to Level the Playing Field
✓✓ The researcher can assume that the participant is
conferring authority, be
responsible with it
What a psychologist can say does more damage than a
layperson
Participants deserve courtesies: be present, be prompt, be
prepared, be polite, be private, and be professional
IRB
✓✓ A committee that holds research to high ethical standards
Every institution that receives federal funds must have an
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Three categories of review
- Exempt: minimal risk
- Expedited: Risk no greater than encountered in daily life
- Full
IRB: Info for proposal
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ • Purpose
• Relevant background and rationale
• Participant population
• Experimental design and methodology
• Any incentives that are offered for participation
• Risks and benefits to the participants
• Privacy and confidentiality
Elements of Informed Consent
✓✓ Competence
- Ability to make well-reasoned decision and to give consent
meaningfully
Knowledge
- Nature of experiment, available alternatives, potential risks &
benefits
Volition
- Agreement provided willingly and free from coercion
- Freedom to withdraw at any time
Dispensing with Informed Consent
