The Ethical Area of a Participant's Right to Privacy Is

question 5

Multiple Choice

The ethical area of a participant's right to privacy is most concerned with which of the following?

• A)whether the setting of an experiment is public or private
• B)the degree to which research procedures will place a participant at risk
• C)the negative consequences that could happen to a participant if other people learned of information provided by a participant in a study
• D)whether there are alternatives to using deception in a research study or not

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