APA Ethical Guidelines!

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APA Ethical Guidelines!
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• The APA American Psychological Association
• Responsible for setting the ethical guidelines
  for human and animal research.
• The IRB Institutional Review Board
• Part of the APA responsible for reviewing
  research proposals for ethical violations and/or
  procedural errors.

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Human Research

• Research involving human subjects must meet the
  following standards

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• 1. Informed Consent
• Participants must know that they are involved in
  research and give their consent.

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• 2. Coercion
• Participation in a research study must be
  voluntary.

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• 3. Anonymity/Confidentiality
• The participants privacy must be protected. No
  identities and actions may be revealed. A
  researched must not share any results that could
  match a participant and their specific responses.
  A researcher will not identify the source of any
  data as well.

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• 4. Risk
• Participants cannot be placed at any significant
  mental or physical risk.

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• 5. Debriefing Procedures

• Participants must be told the purpose of the
  study and provided with ways to contact the
  researcher about the study results.

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Animal Research

• Ethical studies using laboratory animals must
  meet the following requirements

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• 1. Must have a clear scientific purpose.

• The research must answer a specific, important
  scientific question. Animals are chosen based on
  their ability to help answer the question
  proposed.

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• 2. The animals must be cared for and housed in a
  humane way.

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• 3. The animal subjects must be acquired in a
  legal manner.

• must be purchased from accredited companies, and
  if trapped in the wild, they must be trapped in a
  humane manner.

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• 4. The experiment must be designed with
  procedures in place that employ the least amount
  of suffering on the part of the animals.

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