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Ethics of Psychology
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Tuskegee Study
Over 600 Black sharecroppers were studied to document diseases in blacks and racial differences in syphilis. They had no prior knowledge and weren’t told they were being experimented on. The subjects weren’t offered penicillin and couldn’t receive it elsewhere. Once the press knew public outrage stopped the study, but the damage had been done already with many already having died and the disease spreading rapidly. -
Nazi Experiments
Homosexuals, Jews, Negroes, and others not of pure Aryan blood were subject to horrendous experiments not limited to sleep deprivation, starvation, unnecessary surgeries, and torture was carried out. It was mass murder hidden as “experiments” -
Nuremberg Code
Ethical principles released a guide for future researchers about human principles, and they formed the basis for other ethical codes on human research. Codes were made because of the holocaust aftermath. -
Milgram Experiments
Experiments to access participants’ willingness to obey an authority figure and cause harm to others through doing so conflicted with their personal views carried out but Stanly Milgram. Participants assumes the role of a teacher who was ordered to shock learners however they weren’t shocked. 65% of the teachers carried out the experiments even though they were causing harm. -
Tearoom Trade Study
The researcher pretended to be a member of a homosexual community to observe behaviors. He reported on the others in communities and was criticized for his reporting and enhanced stereotypical myths about gays. -
1979 Belmont Report
Clarified research into three different areas. 1. Distinction between therapeutic practice and research 2. Established ethical principles of respect for persons, beneficence, 3. Justice, evidenced by a fair balance between research benefits and burdens