Now that you have completed Chapter 3, you should be able to:
- Explain the role of ethical guidelines when conducting research.
- Describe the two basic ethical obligations of researchers.
- Explain what is meant by "respect for persons and their autonomy" and how researchers try to satisfy this ethical principle.
- Explain the difference between beneficence and nonmaleficence.
- Describe how an institutional review board ideally performs a risk-benefit analysis of a research proposal.
- Discuss the ethical principle of justice and why this principle is often a matter of subjective judgment.
- Describe how researchers can fulfill the ethical principle of trust.
- Discuss the importance of fidelity and scientific integrity in research.
- Differentiate between active and passive deception.
- Describe the importance of debriefing in the research process.
- Apply ethical considerations to the use of animals in research.
- Discuss what is meant by plagiarism and how it may be avoided.
