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Ethical Research ct: All None 11 Post(s) in this Thread Tessage Actions Expand All Collapse All Anonymous Ethical Research How would you define ethical research? What criteria does a research study need to meet in order to be considered ethical? Reply Jaqueline Almario RE: Ethical Research Ethical research is the importance of promoting the support that is required for collaborative work that expands knowledge, respec groups, and scientific studies. The criteria the researchers must meet in order to be an ethical study is honesty in order to report data, results methods, procedur tv

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All research conducted by trained psychologist is currently performed in accordance with strict ethical standards designed to protect the safety and privacy and well-being of all research participants. These standards which were developed both by government agencies and by the American Psychological Association, are carefully enforced in all settings where research occurs. Thus, many safeguards are built into the system and together these assure that the disturbing image of psychological research mentioned above has little connection to reality.

Psychologist sometimes choose to withhold information about the hypothesis they are investigating and other details about research. They believe that such information may change participants' behaviour and so render the result of the research useless. While this reasoning is sound, the use of deception also raises important ethical issues. Although, this issue remains somewhat controversial, most psychologists believe that this option is permissible, provided that two basic principles are followed.

The first involves obtaining informed consent does providing research participants with as much information as possible about events and procedures a study will involve before they agree to participate in it. The second principle, known as debriefing, requires that research participants be given full information about all aspects of study, including deception, after they have participated in it.

Psychologists also conduct research on animals in order to examine the generality of basic principles of behaviour. The psychologist must be careful to the safety of the animals and must not hamper the natural lifestyle of the animal.