What Is the Purpose of an Institutional Review Board

question 148

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of an institutional review board?

• A) to help protect research participants from abuse
• B) to hinder the research process by placing unnecessary hurdles in the way of researchers
• C) to help protect the university from lawsuits from unhappy research participants
• D) to encourage the use of deception in medical and psychological research with humans

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

A learning process through watching the behaviors of others and then imitating or modeling those behaviors.

Retention

The ability to maintain or keep information in the mind, or the act of preserving something.

Encoding

The initial process of converting information into a form that can be stored in memory.

Consequence

A result or effect that follows naturally or logically from an action, decision, or condition.