Consider the Milgram Obedience Studies and the Stanford Prison Simulation Study. Discuss at least four of the ethical concerns regarding the treatment of participants in both studies. Do you think the benefits of the knowledge that was gained from these experiments outweighed the risks to the participants?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Research should cause no harm to subjects; (2) participation in research should be voluntary and therefore subjects must give their informed consent to participate in the research; (3) researchers should fully disclose their identity; (4) anonymity or confidentiality must be maintained for individual research; (5) benefits from a research project should outweigh any foreseeable risk; honesty and openness; protection of research participants; avoiding harm done to research participants; avoid deception.
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a. Volunteer bias b. Coverage bias c. Sampling variability d. Sampling error
Most voters have _______ information about many of the specific policy issues upon which to base their voting choices
a. much researched based c. very little b. no d. bias
In May 1993, Congress passed, and President Clinton signed, a "motor voter" bill. What was it designed to do?
A) register a person's vehicle by mail B) order a person's driver's license by mail C) require states to help register people when they applied for a driver's license D) require states to provide drive-through voting booths E) none of the above
In what order does Theodore Lowi's political action cycle progress?
a. Manufactured success/foreign adventurism>military/policy failure>secondary failure>public disillusionment b. military/policy failure>secondary failure>public disillusionment>manufactured success/foreign adventurism c. Secondary failure>public disillusionment>military/policy failure>manufactured success/foreign adventurism d. Military/policy failure>public disillusionment>manufactured success/foreign adventurism>Secondary failure