Homework: CLC Ethics and IRB
This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) homework. You will be assigned group in class.
We have navigated through much research to date. As you know, ethical considerations are vital during this process. After reading about Milgram's compliance experiment and many of the early studies in social psychology, it becomes clear that participants in social psychology have suffered harm. There are safeguards in place today within the American Psychological Association's Code of Ethics (2016) with regard to research. Institutional Review Boards have also been put in place to protect both human and animal research participants.
Imagine your CLC group sits on an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and someone like Phillip Zombardo or Stanley Milgram provides you with a research proposal to conduct the same experiment(s).
Task: Do some research and chose an unethical study that has been conducted thus far (i.e., Monster Study, Aversion Project, Dr. Money/David Reimer, Learned Helplessness).A quick Internet search will reveal other ideas.
Your job is to approve the study, approve with modifications, or reject the study completely. Using the APA Code of Ethics, justify your group's determination. The code of ethics can be found.
Create a PowerPoint presentation, of 8 to 12 slides (slide count does not include the title and reference slide), in which your group presents their decision. Your PowerPoint should include:
• Provide a summary of the experiment.
• Identify some general ethical concerns with the experiment.
• Using the APA Code of Ethics, identify at least five specific ethic codes that were violated with this study. Be sure to explain why there was a code violation.
• Provide your decision as an IRB if you will approve the study, approve it with modifications, or flat out reject it all together.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.