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The Belmont principle of beneficence requires that:
A. Subjects derive individual benefit from study participation.
B. Potential benefits justify the risks of harm.
C. The study makes a significant contribution to generalizable knowledge.
D. Risks are managed so that they are no more than minimal. - ✔✔B. Potential benefits justify the risks
of harm.
According to the Belmont Report, the moral requirement that there be fair outcomes in the selection of
research subjects, expresses the principle of:
A. Beneficence.
B. Respect for persons.
C. Justice. - ✔✔C. Justice
The researcher's failure to protect research subjects from deductive disclosure is the primary ethical
violation in which of the following studies?
A. Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" study
B. The Tuskegee study
C. Zimbardo's "Stanford Prison Experiment"
D. Harvard "Tastes, Ties, and Time (T3)" study (2006-2009)" study - ✔✔D.
,Humphreys collecting data for the Tearoom Trade study under the pretense that he was a lookout is an
example of a violation of the principle of:
A. Justice.
B. Beneficence.
C. Respect for persons. - ✔✔C.
Which of the following studies is linked most directly to the establishment of the National Research Act
in 1974 and ultimately to the Belmont Report and Federal regulations for human subject protection?
A. The Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.
B. Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo).
C. Tearoom Trade Study (Humphreys).
D. The Harvard T3 study. - ✔✔A.
A professor at Big State University is writing a biography about Bill Gates and conducting oral histories
with all of Bill Gates' friends, family members and business acquaintances. The researcher submits the
research proposal to the institution's IRB. What action can he expect by the IRB?
A. The IRB will not review this study because it does not involve an investigational new device.
B. The IRB will not review this study because it is not research as defined by the federal regulations.
C. The IRB will review this study because it includes human subjects and is considered research.
D. The IRB will not review this study because it does not include human subjects as defined by the
federal regulations. - ✔✔B. The IRB will not review this study because it is not research as defined by the
federal regulations.
, According to the federal regulations, human subjects are living human beings about whom an
investigator obtains data through interaction or intervention with the individual or:
A. De-identified private information.
B. Observations of public behavior.
C. Identifiable public information.
D. Identifiable private information. - ✔✔D. Identifiable private information
According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with
human subjects?
A. A researcher uses the Customs Office's passenger lists for ships bringing immigrants to the US
between 1820-1845 to track the numbers of immigrants from certain ethnic groups.
B. A researcher conducts a linguistic study of comments posted on a local public blog.
C. A developmental psychologist videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care
givers to determine which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression.
D. A researcher asks the director of a local free clinic about the number of patients in the last two years
with newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS. - ✔✔C.
According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with
human subjects?
A. A researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the
blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine.
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The Belmont principle of beneficence requires that:
A. Subjects derive individual benefit from study participation.
B. Potential benefits justify the risks of harm.
C. The study makes a significant contribution to generalizable knowledge.
D. Risks are managed so that they are no more than minimal. - ✔✔B. Potential benefits justify the risks
of harm.
According to the Belmont Report, the moral requirement that there be fair outcomes in the selection of
research subjects, expresses the principle of:
A. Beneficence.
B. Respect for persons.
C. Justice. - ✔✔C. Justice
The researcher's failure to protect research subjects from deductive disclosure is the primary ethical
violation in which of the following studies?
A. Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" study
B. The Tuskegee study
C. Zimbardo's "Stanford Prison Experiment"
D. Harvard "Tastes, Ties, and Time (T3)" study (2006-2009)" study - ✔✔D.
,Humphreys collecting data for the Tearoom Trade study under the pretense that he was a lookout is an
example of a violation of the principle of:
A. Justice.
B. Beneficence.
C. Respect for persons. - ✔✔C.
Which of the following studies is linked most directly to the establishment of the National Research Act
in 1974 and ultimately to the Belmont Report and Federal regulations for human subject protection?
A. The Public Health Service Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.
B. Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo).
C. Tearoom Trade Study (Humphreys).
D. The Harvard T3 study. - ✔✔A.
A professor at Big State University is writing a biography about Bill Gates and conducting oral histories
with all of Bill Gates' friends, family members and business acquaintances. The researcher submits the
research proposal to the institution's IRB. What action can he expect by the IRB?
A. The IRB will not review this study because it does not involve an investigational new device.
B. The IRB will not review this study because it is not research as defined by the federal regulations.
C. The IRB will review this study because it includes human subjects and is considered research.
D. The IRB will not review this study because it does not include human subjects as defined by the
federal regulations. - ✔✔B. The IRB will not review this study because it is not research as defined by the
federal regulations.
, According to the federal regulations, human subjects are living human beings about whom an
investigator obtains data through interaction or intervention with the individual or:
A. De-identified private information.
B. Observations of public behavior.
C. Identifiable public information.
D. Identifiable private information. - ✔✔D. Identifiable private information
According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with
human subjects?
A. A researcher uses the Customs Office's passenger lists for ships bringing immigrants to the US
between 1820-1845 to track the numbers of immigrants from certain ethnic groups.
B. A researcher conducts a linguistic study of comments posted on a local public blog.
C. A developmental psychologist videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care
givers to determine which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression.
D. A researcher asks the director of a local free clinic about the number of patients in the last two years
with newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS. - ✔✔C.
According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with
human subjects?
A. A researcher conducts a comparison of the comments made in a publicly available blog and the
blogger's comments on a similar topic in a weekly magazine.
