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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. - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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 - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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. - Answer- 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.
B. A researcher sets up a meeting with the superintendent of a large and diverse public
school system to get data about the ethnic composition of the school system and the
number of students receiving free lunches.
C. A cognitive psychologist enrolls undergraduate students for a computer-based study
about the effect of mood on problem solving behaviors.
D. Undergraduate students in a field methods class are assigned a research question
and asked to interview another classmate, to be followed by a class discussion on
interview techniques. - Answer- C.
According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition
of research with human subjects?
A. A researcher receives anonymized data for secondary analysis from a survey about
gender-related differences in stress levels conducted by a colleague at another
university.
B. A university designs an in-house study to improve the mentoring of women students
in its engineering department with the proposed outcome consisting of a report of
recommendations for the department.
C. An experiment is proposed on the relationship between gender-related stereotypes in
math and the subsequent performance by males and females on math tests.
D. An organization for women academics in engineering asks a federal agency to
provide the number of women investigators funded by that agency to include in a report
for its membership. - Answer- C.
Census data is an example of:
Public information.
Private behavior.
Private information.