Question

Dr. Z is conducting research on ADHD and is requiring members of his psychology class to participate. as part of the study student are learning to control their brain activity by using feedback during an EEG. in doing so half of the class is learning to enhance brain activity associated with improved attention. the other half is learning to increase brain activity associated with the inattentive symptoms of ADHD. he asks both groups to complete tests of attention and he shares the individual results students in class calling them by name and displaying their individual results. he did not gain approval from his university’s institutional review board to conduct this study claiming it simply a pilot investigation. refer back to the APA ethical guidelines discussed in Chapter One. what guidelines and standards are being violated.

Answer 1

the guidelines related the ethics of a psychologist are violated here. the ethical grounds of a psychologist demands him to have a consent as well as approval from the board before the conducton of the test and it also requires one to keep the results confidential. two of the ethics violated here are-

infomed consent and approval- before conducting a test on human beings the board needs to approve it as a test such that it meets all the safe and positive requirements for the test and also needs to inform the participants about the test and its process and take their consent. Dr. Z didnt have the permission of the board as well as the participants.

confidentiality- after the test haas been conducted the results and the data so collected needs to be kept confidential and the psychologist cannot share it with anyone. ere Dr. Z discloses the results in front of all the participants by making announcements.