Assignment: Ethics
Research Ethics
This assignment has three parts. In part one, a form of essay known as the five- paragraph essay will be introduced. In part one, you will do some readings on the ethics of research and write a five-paragraph essay. Part three involves some more readings on research ethics and a second, short writing assignment.
Part 1: The five-paragraph essay form
READING
It's possible that you may have been introduced to this form of essay in one of your college classes or even in high school. Knowing this essay form provides you with a valuable tool you can use across numerous writing situations.
a. First, read this short article on why being able to write a well-structured analytical essay is important
b. To prepare for watching the video, read this example of a Reasons-style five- paragraph essay
c. Watch this video (~ 15 minutes), which provides several examples
Part 2: How to behave ethically as a research scientist
READING
a. To learn why it's important, in general, to understand research ethics, read Resnik's (2015) article, "What Is Ethics in Research & Why Is It Important?"
b. To learn about research ethics specific to conducting research with human participants:
1. Read McLeod's (2015) article, "Psychology Research Ethics."
2. Watch Udacity's (2015) YouTube, "Ethics in Research - Psychology."
3. Read Psych Yogi's (2015) article, "Ethical Issues in Psychology."
4. Be sure to notice the principles and procedures that are specific to research with human participants.
c. To learn about research ethics specific to conducting research with child participants:
1. Read the Society for Research in Child Development's (2007) article, "Ethical Standards in Research."
2. Be sure to notice the principles and procedures that are specific to research with child participants.
d. To learn about research ethics specific to conducting research with non-human animals:
1. Read the American Psychological Association's (2012) pamphlet, "Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Nonhuman Animals in Research."
2. Be sure to notice the principles and procedures that are specific to conducting research with non-human animals.
WRITING ASSIGNMENT
e. Write a Reasons-style five-paragraph essay arguing for the importance of research ethics. In your 5-paragraph essay (it should be between 400 and 500 words), you can choose from one of the following four topics to write about:
1. three reasons why ethics, in general, are important in research OR
2. three reasons why ethics specific to conducting research with human participants are important OR
3. three reasons why ethics specific to conducting research with child participants are important OR
4. three reasons why ethics specific to conducting research with non-human animals are important.
Make sure your Reasons-style five-paragraph essay contains all of these components:
a. Does the essay present five paragraphs?
b. Does the introduction paragraph begin with a hook?
c. Is the hook inviting?
d. Does the essay have a clearly written thesis statement?
e. Is the thesis statement the last sentence of the introduction paragraph?
f. Does the essay provide three reasons/arguments or three examples?
g. Is each reason/argument/example presented in its own supporting paragraph?
h. Is each reason/argument/example interesting or compelling?
i. Is each supporting paragraph structured with a topic sentence, followed by three sentences that provide evidence, examples or details, and ending with a conclusion sentence?
j. Does the essay have a conclusion paragraph?
k. Does the conclusion paragraph contain a sentence that re-states the thesis statement, in different words?
l. Does the conclusion paragraph end with something witty or memorable?
m. Is the essay free of grammatical errors?
n. Is the essay free of spelling errors?
f. In addition, your Reasons essay must (and undoubtedly will need to) include at least one (and most likely more) in-text citations (placed in parentheses at the end of the sentence).
1. Remember that any information you paraphrase (or quote) from this Assignment's required readings must be cited with an in-text citation.
2. Because all the readings for this Assignment are from webpages (and one video), be sure to use the "website" option for APA-style citations (or the "video" option if you are citing the video).
3. Also include the full citations at the end of your essay for all in-text citations you include within your essay.
4. Save your Reasons essay as a word document, and name the file YourLastname_EthicsReasons_Essay.pdf. Upload to "Writing Assignment 6a: Ethics and Protecting Human Subjects".
Part 3: Ethics and contemporary psychological science
a. To learn some of the history behind current-day research ethics:
1. Read Youngpeter's (2009) article, "Controversial Psychological Research Methods and Their Influence on the Development of Formal Ethical Guidelines." (Note that Youngpeter was an undergraduate student when she published this journal article.)
2. Watch SciShow's (2016) YouTube, "5 Psychology Experiments You Couldn't Do Today."
3. Read Jarrett's (2014) article, "The 10 Most Controversial Psychology Studies Ever Published."
- Note that Jarrett is not equating ‘controversial' with ‘unethical,' although there is overlap between some of the studies he deems controversial and some of the studies other authors deem unethical.
b. Next, read Fescoe's (2016) article, "The 25 Most Influential Psychological Experiments in History."
o Note which experiments Youngpeter (2009) and SciShow (2016) deem unethical in current day or Jarrett (2014) deems controversial are also included in Fescoe's (2016) list of "The 25 Most Influential Psychological Experiments in History."
c. Then, read Shweder and Nisbett's (2017) article, "Long-Sought Research
Deregulation Is Upon Us: Don't Squander the Moment," which argues, in current day, for reduced research ethics oversight of "benign behavioral interventions (including ordinary psychology experiments)."
d. Refresh your memory from Assignment #2, "Separating Fact from Fiction" about the prerequisites for being ‘entitled to your opinion' (i.e., you are entitled to simple tastes of preferences, like preferring vanilla over chocolate ice cream, but to have your opinions "treated as serious candidates" for logic and reason, you are only ‘entitled to your opinion' if you provide evidence-based arguments, Braithwaite, 2006; Stokes, 2012).
a. Identify and discuss, with evidence-based arguments, which five of Fescoe's list of "The 25 Most Influential Psychological Experiments in History" you consider the least ethical. You don't have to write an essay for this part of the assignment. Rather, you can just write a title, then identify and describe (in 2 or 3 sentences) the five you chose (similar to the structure of a web article or blog post).
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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