As part of your senior thesis, you want to study the effects of advertising on young children during Saturday morning cartoons. Which of the following is the first step you will need to take?
A. Get informed consent from the group of children you will be using as subjects.
B. Obtain approval for your project from the human participants institutional review board at the university you are attending.
C. Recruit students from a local school to be subjects.
D. Find a place for all the children to watch television together on a Saturday morning.
Answer: B
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