H. M. was a famous subject who contributed a great deal to what we know about memory today. Due to a lesion in his medial temporal lobe he had profound anterograde amnesia—he could not make new memories. When seeing people he had met thousands of times before, it was, to him, like meeting them for the first time. Given this information and what you know about the requirements for consent, was H. M. able to provide consent for the many psychological experiments he participated in over the years?
What will be an ideal response?
No. Consent has the requirement that the person has the ability to understand the facts and consequences of participating in treatment—it can be inferred that this doesn’t just mean momentarily, but the long-term implications of participating or having participated in the experiment, which H. M. couldn’t think through and retain. He also would have less ability to voluntarily withdraw from an experiment than the average participant, because he might not know where he was or what he was doing in the middle of an experiment.
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a. True b. False
Credentialing does NOT include
a. licensure. b. certification. c. tenure. d. accreditation.
Techniques are more important to models that see the therapist-as-expert and in charge of making change happen. Collaborative approaches require:
a. planning. b. individual techniques. c. individual interventions. d. isolation.
______________ is a voluntary attempt by a group to promote a professional identity.
A. Certification B. Licensure C. Registration D. Accreditation