Monster Study Code Of Ethics

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Ethics is a means of distinguishing between right and wrong, it focuses on ways to help people in general. Ethical standards can be defined in one way as researchers following the standards identified in the APA Ethics Code to protect the rights and welfare of research participants. As stated in the article, many psychologists during that time preformed highly unethical research experiments that went too far and violated both the code of ethics and standards. However, due to that we now have our most current ethical standards.
The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphans from Iowa. The experiment was kept hidden for fear that their name would be ruined. Johnson's violated ethics in his lack of regard for the potential harm to …show more content…

The hypothesis was that if homosexual people were exposed to aversion therapy then they would most likely become heterosexual or straight. This experiment left the patients with psychological damage and low self-esteem. Some were able to recover while. Others suffered permanent damage to their personality. This experiment is considered unethical because it harms homosexuals. It gives them no freedom to choose their own gender identity that every human being should be allowed to do. Also, it is very unethical to harm others psychologically because they can get other illnesses from this, such as depression, post-traumatic stress …show more content…

The dependent variable in the Experiment of 1965 was the reaction of the dogs. The Learned Helplessness experiment conducted by psychologist Martin Seligman is considered unethical. This experiment was unethical because it was cruel and afflicted painful testing on animals. In an ethical research experiment the test subjects have the right to be protected from harm or discomfort, inform consent, and also have the right to refuse participation. This is the boundary Seligman crossed. Animals are unable to verbally refuse to participate and cannot inform consent since they are unaware of intentions of humans. Therefore he was conducting an experiment where he tortured them and liberality ignored the subjects discomfort for his own research

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