Ethical Controversies Answers

For psychologists, controlling electronic information is important because electronic information is __________.A.harder to organize than physical copies of informationB.trivially easy to copy and redistribute C.difficult to share with other researchers and psychologistsD.practically impossible to keep confidential

Raw data often appears in published scientific journals.

Animal research has made no important scientific contribution.

Animal research is a recent scientific invention.

One of the main arguments that animal rights advocates present is that animals have rights because they __________.A.have moral agencyB.are capable of sufferingC.cannot defend themselvesD.are the property of humans

Current ethical standards for psychology experiments were established by Freud in the 1920s.

In the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, what information did researchers keep from their subjects about their illnesses?A.They were told they had a rare form of syphilis.B.They were not treated for or told they had cancer.C.They were told they had a sexually transmitted infection.D.They were not treated for or told they had syphilis.

Plagiarism is unethical because it implies that __________.A.all of the sources used are only helpful for limited purposesB.the author being plagiarized endorses the plagiarized workC.the work that one has plagiarized is an original creationD.one doesn’t care about the confidentiality of the research

One of the major ethical issues with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was the lack of respect given to the subjects in the experiment.

Read the passage from a fictional research article below and answer the question that follows.The extraordinary results of this study are beyond reproach; the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them.–Frances Wallace, page 15Now read the following passages from a separate article. Which of the following uses of the above passage is not considered plagiarism?A.And thus we know that the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them (Wallace 15).B.If we look at Wallace’s work, we can be certain the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them.C.Although it is startling to contemplate, “the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them” (Wallace 15).D.These results are extraordinary and cannot be doubted—the human mind creates memories!