Question

As a member of a developmental research team you are given the responsibility of obtaining parental consent for a group of kindergarten children to participate in a research study. You want to make the process of getting parental consent as easy as possible so you prepare the informed consent and then have the kindergarten give each child the consent form with instructions to give it to their parents for them to read and sign and return it only if they do not want their child to participate in the study. This approach would involve

Answer 1

Passive consent

Step-by-step explanation:

In any participatory study or assignment, consent is needed if you wants participant to be involved in your research or study. Consent in this scenario is permission to be involved in a study or not.

The use of voluntary participation uses the principle that participants to be used in a study or research must choose to participate or be involved on/of their own free will.

Pssive Consent

This is simply defined as the act of no response is taken to be an affirmative consent to participate in research. It is also called "opt out informed consent". This type of consent is mostly used for parental consent for children's participation in school based research.

It is the act of giving consent by not returning consent form. Parents only sign and return consent from when declining participation. This is usually not consistent with APA standards.