Ethical Controversies

24 August 2022
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Animal research has made no important scientific contribution.
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F
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For psychologists, controlling electronic information is important because electronic information is __________.
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b. trivially easy to copy and redistribute
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One of the main arguments that animal rights advocates present is that animals have rights because they __________.
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b. are capable of suffering
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Raw data often appears in published scientific journals.
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F
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One of the major ethical issues with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was the lack of respect given to the subjects in the experiment.
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T
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In the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, what information did researchers keep from their subjects about their illnesses?
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d. They were not treated for or told they had syphilis.
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What did the lead researcher fail to do in the Stanford Prison experiment?
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b. He failed to adequately separate his psychological duties from his experimental role.
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In the "Little Albert" experiment, psychologist John Watson conditioned a(n) ____________.
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c. infant to fear a lab rat
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Plagiarism is unethical because it implies that __________.
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c. the work that one has plagiarized is an original creation
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Which of the following is not a reason psychologists may subject an animal used in research to pain, stress, or hardship?
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d. When the goal is justified by the potential for recognition.
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Animal research is a recent scientific invention.
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F
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Current ethical standards for psychology experiments were established by Freud in the 1920s.
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F