Question

Your psychology professor is conducting research and desperately needs more research participants because the existing subjects keep running from the building screaming! She tells the class that everyone must be a subject to get a grade in the class and that there are no exceptions. In terms of ethical treatment of research subjects, her policy would: A. violate the informed consent concept of competence B. be acceptable as long as her procedures were presented to the institutional review board C. be acceptable if she carefully explained the experiment to each participant and did allow participants to quit if they were uncomfortable during the procedure D.violate the informed consent concept of volunteerism

Answer 1

The correct answer is D. Violate the informed consent concept of volunteerism

Explanation:

In any research, it is necessary participants agree on participating in the research, after being informed of the purposes, methodology, and details about their participation, this process is called informed consent and it is par to the ethics in research. Additionally, participation should not be forced or influenced by punishments or similar. This implies, in the case presented, the researcher is violating the informed consent concept of volunteerism as she is forcing students to participate in the research to get a grade which means participants do not accept to participate voluntarily.