Research CHPT 4

debrief

talking after a deception study telling them what they did and why it was necessary

respect for persons

ethical principle from Belmont report stating that research participants should be treated as autonomous agents and some groups deserve special protection

informed consent

right to learn about the study and risks/benefits

beneficence / concern for welfare

researchers need to take precautions to protect participants form harm

anonymous study

identifying information is not collected, thereby completely protecting the identity of participants

confidential study

identifying information is collected but protected from disclosure to people other than the researchers.

justice

fair balance between kinds of people who participate, and kinds of people who benefit

Institutional review board (IRB)

committee responsible for ensuring that research using human participants is conducted ethically

Research ethics board (REB)

canadian IRB

deception

omission - withholding details

commission - lying

data fabrication

a form of research misconduct in which a researcher invents data that fit the hypothesis

data falsification

researcher influences a studies results, perhaps by deleting observations from a dataset or influencing participants to act a hypothesized way

plagiarism

representing the ideas or words of others as ones own

self-plagiarism

a potentially unethical practice in which researchers recycle their own previously published text, verbatim without attribution in a subsequent article