Ethical Controversies

Question 1

For psychologists, controlling electronic information is important because electronic information is __________.

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trivially easy to copy and redistribute

Question 2

Raw data often appears in published scientific journals.

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F

Question 3

Animal research has made no important scientific contribution.

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F

Question 4

Animal research is a recent scientific invention.

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F

Question 5

One of the main arguments that animal rights advocates present is that animals have rights because they __________.

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are capable of suffering

Question 6

Current ethical standards for psychology experiments were established by Freud in the 1920s.

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F

Question 7

In the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, what information did researchers keep from their subjects about their illnesses?

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They were not treated for or told they had syphilis.

Question 8

Plagiarism is unethical because it implies that __________.

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the work that one has plagiarized is an original creation

Question 9

One of the major ethical issues with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was the lack of respect given to the subjects in the experiment.

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T

Question 10

Read the passage from a fictional research article below and answer the question that follows.The extraordinary results of this study are beyond reproach; the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them.–Frances Wallace, page 15Now read the following passages from a separate article. Which of the following uses of the above passage is not considered plagiarism?

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Although it is startling to contemplate, “the human mind creates memories each time you would like to remember them” (Wallace 15).

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