Describe how the use of deception can be justified on methodological grounds and describe the conditions under which the use of deception is always unethical.
What will be an ideal response?
It is simply impossible to carry out certain kinds of research without withholding information from participants about some aspects of the research. For example, Kassin and Kiechel (1996) investigated factors affecting whether people will falsely confess to having done something that they did not do. At times it may be necessary to misinform participants in order to have them adopt a certain attitude. If the participants in Kassin and Kiechel's research had known in advance that the procedures were trying to elicit their false confessions, they probably would not have confessed. It is always unethical to deceive participants for the purpose of getting them to participate in research in which they would normally not take part or research that involves more than minimal risk.
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a. unrelated. b. similar. c. identical. d. conflicting.
The person who is complacent toward his own antisocial behavior is high in:
a. bored depression b. hypochondriasis c. energy depression d. psychopathic deviation
Committing to one hypothesis without adequately testing other possibilities is called
a) set effect. b) confirmation bias. c) functional fixedness. d) difficulty in problem representation.
Infant temperament refers to individual differences in __________ and __________
Fill in the blanks with correct word