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jrubin

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Research-oriented institutions typically decide what is ethical with respect to the treatment of humans in behavioral research by
 
  A) trusting the individual researchers to decide what is ethical.
  B) having the head of the appropriate academic department decide what is best.
  C) having an institutional review board review research proposals.
  D) using an arbitrator assigned by the federal government.

Question 2

The primary reason that the APA has spent so much time and effort creating ethical guidelines detailing how humans should be treated in behavioral research is that
 
  A) many psychologists cannot be trusted.
  B) the nature of the relationship between those being experimented on and the experimenter is stacked in favor of the experimenter having implied power.
  C) humans lose many of their legal rights when they agree to serve in research.
  D) there have been so many cases of mistreatment of humans in behavioral research.



sultansheikh

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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B



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