In all human development research ethical guidelines as set by the American Psychological
Association must be followed.
Present three of these guidelines and then describe how a
researcher would comply with them whenconducting child and adolescent research.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Protection from harm – insure that children are notexposed to negative materials or events. If such
occurs, counseling must be offered.
2. Informed consent – must relate research in understandable terms; 7 years and old must agree; if
children are participants must also have consent of parents.
3. Confidentiality – results are not made public; numbers or a code must be assigned to responses.
4. Knowledge of results – participants should be informed in writing and in understandable terms the
results of the research. This should be made available to parents.
5. Deception – if this is employed, true purpose ofstudy must be revealed at the completion of the
study, this is called debriefing.
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