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Chapter 3 1. The Tuskegee syphilis study was ethically problematic
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participants' disease was treatable.
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d. it violated the principle of informed consent.
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Chapter 6 2. Which Belmont principle led to federal regulations on
Chapter 7 informed consent?
Chapter 8 a. respect for persons
Chapter 9 b. beneficence
Chapter 10 c. justice
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d. security
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Chapter 13 3. What does it mean, according to the Common Rule, for a
Chapter 14 study to involve “minimal risk”?
a. The level of distress a participant might
experience is no greater than what may be
encountered in daily life.
b. The odds are less than 1 in 10 that normal
adults will experience discomfort from their
participation.
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Higher Education Comment c. The odds are less than 1 in 100 that normal
Card adults will experience discomfort from their
participation.
d. The odds are less than 1 in 100 that
research participants will withdraw from the
experiment because of the risk.

4. A researcher plans to conduct a survey to measure the

incidence of student cheating at his university. In
considering potential risks, what would be the best
advice you could offer?
a. The possibility that respondents may be
identified poses no more than “minimal risk.”
b. The study should not be done because it
offers no discernible benefits to research
participants.
c. The study should not be done because of
the high risk to research participants.
d. The researcher should consider an
anonymous survey to protect participants' privacy.

5. To obtain informed consent, you must do all of the

following except
a. inform participants that their participation is
voluntary.
b. forewarn participants about potentially
harmful effects.

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c. fully disclose your research objectives and

hypotheses.
d. inform participants that they may
discontinue their participation at any time.

6. The use of deception in social research is

a. illegal.
b. permissible under certain conditions.
c. methodologically unsound.
d. rare because of federal ethical constraints
on it use.

7. According to the text's discussion of institutional review

boards (IRBs),
a. their main purpose is to review cases of
scientific misconduct.
b. they are mandated by federal regulations to
review research proposals involving human
research participants.
c. they are comprised exclusively of
nonscientists who are employed outside the
institution.
d. their role is to advise rather than to
approve, modify, or disapprove research
proposals.

8. According to the text, what is Max Weber's position on

the doctrine of value neutrality?
a. All phases of scientific research should be
value-free.
b. The doctrine applies to the natural but not
to the social sciences.
c. Personal values should not influence how
researchers design and conduct their research.
d. It is impossible to remove the influence of
personal values on scientific research.

9. With regard to the practical application of research

findings, the text suggests that social scientists
a. have no control over and, therefore, no
ethical obligation to consider how their findings
may be used by others.
b. should emulate medical researchers and
play the role of impartial experts.
c. should consider the implications of their
research and how others may use their findings.
d. should not advocate particular uses of their
findings.

10. With regard to the issue of conflict of interest, some

social scientists criticized Mark Regnerus for
a. doing research financially supported by
foundations that opposed same-sex marriage.
b. failing to divulge the funding sources for his
research.
c. concealing findings that were contrary to his
personal position on same-sex marriage.
d. doing research on a topic about which he
had strong personal feelings.

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