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Multiple Choice 1) People are using their own personal system of ethics when they make statements like this: a) I enjoy watching baseball on TV b) I think I’ll cut the grass tomorrow instead of today c) I don’t think it is a good idea to physically punish children d) I don’t think it is a good idea to take a research methods course until after you’ve taken a statistics course 2) All of the following are the kinds of statements that derive from one’s system of ethics except a) I don’t think it is appropriate to allow children to watch more than three hours of TV per day b) People should not be allowed to have pets; it’s slavery c) I don’t think it is appropriate to separate mind from body; the mind is just a looser termfor thebrain d) If you spare the rod, you will produce an emotionally healthy child 3) The purpose of Watson and Rayner’s Little Albert study was to a) determine if emotional responses could be conditioned b) evaluate the effectiveness of a therapy for treating children’s fears c) determine the stimuli that produced the basic emotions d) see if humans learned in the same way as animals 4) How did Watson and Rayner justify doing the Little Albert study? a) they knew they would be removing the fear at the end of the study; thus Albert would leavetheexperiment without the fear b) they had the parents’ informed consent and the approval of the IRB c) they thought he was strong and healthy and would not be harmed by the procedure d) none of the above – they gave no thought to the ethical dimensions of their study 5) What was Myrtle McGraw’s purpose in doing the “pin-pricking†study with infants? a) she wanted to study physiological maturation in the infants b) she wished to determine if the infants would habituate to the pin pricks and not notice themc) she was studying fear conditioning, but using better controls than Watson d) she was examining which parts of the body were most sensitive to skin punctures 6) Dennis (1941) studied a pair of female twins. What was true about his study? a) he obtained parental consent before testing them b) he was interested in whether environmental deprivation would affect development c) he was able to show that twins have about the same IQ, even if raised in different environmentsd) it was the first developmental psychology study to use assent in addition to consent 7) Based on the Doctors Trials of Nazi doctor’s experimentation on humans, the __________ was developed and stressed the importance of voluntary consent of human participants of rese
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