Question

Researchers interested in studying stress gave 150 high school seniors a very difficult math exam. After the test, the researchers measured stress by examining physiological changes with extensive medical testing that included drawing blood samples. When the test was over, they shared the results with the students, but did not publish individual data. Explain whether or not this study conforms to each of the ethical standards: Informed Consent, Debriefing, Confidentiality, and Protection from harm.

Answer 1

Informed Consent- The study didn't conform this ethical standard.

Debriefing- The study conforms this ethical standard.

Confidentiality- The study conforms this ethical standard.

Protection from harm- The study conforms this ethical standard.

Step-by-step explanation:

Informed consent is described as a procedure whereby researchers tend to provide details about specific research they are going to conduct, the risk & benefits involved in the study, different alternatives involved in the procedure, etc.

Debriefing is described as a process that is being conducted in any of the different psychological research encompassing human participants after specific research is completed. The researcher tends to describe the details of the research to the participants.

Confidentiality is described as one of the different code of ethics followed by health workers or psychologists. While practicing confidentiality, a psychologist tends to promise his or her participants that he or she will keep everything a secret whatever is being discussed or shared between both of them.

Protection from harm determines that the psychologists conducting research follows the ethics in which he or she has to protect all the participants from any kind of harm.