The Main Ethical Principle Guiding Psychology Experiments with Human Participants

question 187

Multiple Choice

The main ethical principle guiding psychology experiments with human participants is

• A) start by telling the participants the theory behind the research.
• B) include only procedures that participants would agree to experience.
• C) never repeat an experiment that has already been done by someone else.
• D) participants should always be compensated, based on the amount of time and effort involved in the experiment.

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Definitions:

Common Features

Attributes or characteristics that are shared among a group of objects, concepts, or phenomena.

Information Processing

A psychological approach studying the mind analogously to a computer, focusing on how information is perceived, processed, and stored.

Memory

is the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and retrieving information, experiences, and skills.

Cognition

Mental activity involved in understanding, processing, and communicating information.