In Order for Consent to Be Voluntary, Which Must Occur

question 37

Multiple Choice

In order for consent to be voluntary, which must occur?

• A)The participant must sign a consent form.
• B)The participant cannot be mentally incompetent.
• C)The participant cannot be shamed, forced, or cajoled into participation.
• D)The participant will not be paid (remunerated) because this would be coercive.
• E)The researcher must confirm that the person signing the consent form truly understands what the research will involve.

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Definitions:

Excitatory Conditioned Response

A learned response that increases the probability of a specific behavior in anticipation of a reward or outcome.

Forward Conditioning

A type of classical conditioning where the conditioned stimulus is presented before the unconditioned stimulus, leading to an association between the two.

Rescorla-Wagner Model

A model of conditioning that emphasizes the importance of the predictability of the US by the CS, proposing a limit to the amount of learning that can occur.

Associative Strength

The measure of the relationship between a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus, indicating how strongly two stimuli are linked in an individual's mind.