Psychology research psychological research on animals

Ethics in Psychology

  • Trephination
    6500 BCE

    Trephination

    odd behavior was caused by spiritual possession. Holes were drilled in skull to "remove" spirits.
  • Period: 6500 BCE to

    Ethics in psychology

  • Testing of "Abnormal" People

    Testing of "Abnormal" People

    Concentration camp members and other "abnormal people" (gays/ blacks) tortured, starved and killed
  • Sickle Cell Studies

    Sickle Cell Studies

    Black people studied for sickle cell disease and racial differences in diseases. They were prevented from treatment for the disease, and many died
  • BF Skinner's Theories

    BF Skinner's Theories

    formulates theories of operant conditioning using electrical shocks on animals
  • Nuremberg codes

    Nuremberg codes

    ethical rules for experiment participation (consent, be beneficial, no pain or suffering, qualified, can stop at time.
  • APA committee meets

    APA committee meets

    APA committee meets and creates a list of ethical standards for psychologists-practical techniques
  • Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct

    Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct

    large draft created of the ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct (revised in 2002)
  • Stanley Milgram Experiments

    Stanley Milgram Experiments

    obedience labs of operant conditioning using electrical shocks on humans
  • New Lab Conducts

    New Lab Conducts

    psychologists pretended to be homosexual to observe behavior. Shattered rumors of gays being mentally ill and inhumane.
  • Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

    Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment

    mock prison experiment-reasonable people can become unreasonable
  • national commission of the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research meeting

    national commission of the protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral research meeting

    Belmont report, which covered distinction, principles, and justice rules for psychology experiments
  • Code of Federal Regulations

    Code of Federal Regulations

    list of rules and reasonable curtsies that protect human subjects
  • Rosenthal's ethical violations in reporting research results

    Rosenthal's ethical violations in reporting research results

    reasonable expectations for human research subjects such as no misrepresentation, credit must be given etc.
  • HIPPA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

    HIPPA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

    protects privacy of human subjects in experiments and studies
  • 2000's-Current Day Ethics

    2000's-Current Day Ethics

    ethics codes, federal regulations, HIPPA, IRB provisions protect
    human subjects and regulate possible privacy infractions, mental injury, and physical injury