Question

Milgram's (1963) study on obedience deceived participants by having them think they were shocking someone, but the person was actually only pretending to be shocked. This study would not likely be approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) today because the current ethical standards include having the researcher _____________.

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Explanation:

Ethic standards are a set of guideline, principle or lay down rule within an organisation or any profession which acts as a footnote to all members to promote values, guide a person's and business's operational behaviour to avoid confusions during the course of their activities. Ethic standards or code differ from one organisation and institution to another. However, some ethical principles such as accountability, fairness, autonomy( consent), honesty, transparency etc are ethical principles perspective general to almost all organisation and institution.

Therefore from Milgram's study approach, it could be deduced that his method of research was based on misinformation and participants was not fully informed on the basic of the study conduct. Participants in any study must give their consent to any observation, participation before any study can be considered proper, legit or conducted in an appropriate manner.

So, the study conducted by Milgram's would not likely be approved by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) today because the current ethical standards include having the researcher provide informed consent to participants before the study started, as well as to avoid causing any possible psychological harm to the participants and having incorrect data from such study.