Research Methods in Psychology Core Concepts and Skills V.1.0 by Paul C. Price – Test Bank

Research Methods in Psychology Core Concepts and Skills V.1.0 by Paul C. Price – Test Bank

Chapter 3

True/False Questions

Section 1

1. 1. 1. Scientific studies are considered ethical only if there is no risk of harm to the participants.

False; Moderate

1. 1. 1. Ethical researchers consider how their research might affect society.

True; Easy

1. 1. 1. Participants in Milgram’s (1963) obedience study received dangerous electric shocks.

False; Easy

1. 1. 1. Participants in the Tuskegee syphilis study were prisoners in a state penitentiary.

False; Easy

1. 1. 1. Autonomy refers to people’s right to make their own choices and take their own actions.

True; Easy

1. 1. 1. Informed consent refers to participants’ reading and signing a consent form.

False; Moderate

1. 1. 1. Ethical researchers are able to eliminate all ethical conflict from their studies.

False; Moderate

Section 2

1. 1. 1. The first written ethics code for research with human participants was the Declaration of Helsinki.

False; Moderate

1. 1. 1. The Nuremberg Code was written in association with the trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II.

True; Easy

1. 1. 1. The Nuremberg Code was the first formal statement of the importance of distributing risks and benefits fairly across different groups in society.

False; Moderate

1. 1. 1. Institutional review boards consist entirely of psychologists and other research scientists.

False; Moderate

1. 1. 1. The APA Ethics Code was first published in 1953.

True; Moderate

1. 1. 1. The APA Ethics Code allows for deception in psychological research under certain conditions.

True; Easy

1. 1. 1. Debriefing refers to informing participants about the details of a study before it begins.

False; Easy

Section 3

1. 1. 1. A psychologist who is unfamiliar with the APA Ethics Code cannot be held responsible for conducting research that does not conform to that code.

False; Moderate