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Homework

I. Review the following websites: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and Americans for Medical Progress. What are the guidelines to conduct research on animals ethically? What do you find to be the importance to the "Three R's"? What are the alternatives to using animals for testing? Under what circumstances would these alternatives be able to replace animal testing with the current technology? Ensure to cite sources, relying on your textbook and scholarly sources for your response.

II. Read the Discussion Questions Psychology Internship case study, located in Topic 3 resources, then answer the following questions.

A. What is the ethical responsibility of the student intern?

B. Who would be at fault if the roommate found out?

C. What are your personal feelings about the situation and how will your personal feelings affect your actions in this situation?

D. How might the scenario be impacted if there was more than one student intern, and they were asked to work together.

E. How can a person's morals and values, religious upbringing, ethical responsibilities, and safety create a complicated situation without an easy answer?

III. Benchmark

Description

Select one "research disaster" from the list provided or a preapproved topic.

Topics Include:

1. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
2. Thalidomide Experiments
3. Death of Jesse Gelsinger
4. The Stanford Experiment
5. The Milgram Experiments
6. The Monster Study
7. The Aversion Project

In 500 to 750 words, address the following:

A. Describe the disaster, including what occurred, when, and the demographic characteristics of those affected.

B. Identify the consequences, including how the demographics of those involved placed them at risk.

C. Due to these experiments or circumstances, explain the ethical/legal issues faced by both those in power and those subjected to the experiment.

D. Describe what modern-day research ethics practices and/or procedures were informed by this event(s) (i.e., Informed Consent, The Belmont Report, and any specific core ethical principles or standards discussed in Chapter 4 of the course textbook). Describe how these modern-day ethical practices align with the standards of the American Psychological Association.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark homework assesses the following programmatic competency:

BS Psychology

Explain how social, political, economic, and cultural information is used ethically and legally in the discipline of psychology.

IV. Pop psychology tests are a common form of entertainment online. Find a personality or relationship quiz (try the relationship tests on the Mars Venus website, located in Topic 4 resources or any personality tests through pop culture websites).

A. These pop psychology tests are not considered scholarly and are not peer-reviewed.

B. Choose one of these pop psychology tests and explain what adjustments you would make to create reliability and validity. How you would test its reliability and validity as is, and how does a scholarly test that stands to test-retesting compare?

C. You might frame your comparison in this form: "If this pop psychology scale were valid, it would be expected that it correlated with . . ." or "If this scale were reliable, it would be expected..."

V. During a recent U.S. election, the news media interviewed a group of women in your state. Although opinion polls strongly supported Party I's candidate, these women were still optimistic that their own side - Party II - would win. One woman said, "I don't think those polls are very good-after all, they've never called me. Have they called any of you ladies?" Is this woman's critique of polling techniques appropriate? Why or why not?

VI. This homework addresses the most fundamental goal of this class-becoming a better consumer of information.

You will find media coverage of a psychological research topic and determine how well it represents the empirical study it describes.

The popular source you choose must include a psychological claim that you can discuss in some detail. You will find examples of psychological claims in advertising, magazines, the newspaper, or the Internet (Buzzfeed, Forbes, SimplyPsychology).

You will write an APA paper with the following sections. Each section should be four to eight sentences:

Section I: Write a brief introduction of the chosen psychological research topic and describe the importance of critiquing popular media coverage of research studies.

Section II: Summarize the media article. Include the claim being made by the author(s) of the media. (e.g., There is a relationship between social media use and body image, Individuals who own pets are happier)

Section III: Summarize the empirical article. Include the claim being made by the author(s) of the empirical study (this may or may not be the same as the claim in the media article).

Section IV: Analyze how well the media article represents the research study and choose at least two of the following topics to analyze:

1. Variables focused on by the researcher (i.e., were they the same as those described in the media article?)

2. The main claims of the researcher (What are they? Are they the same as what is described in the media article?)

3. Type of claims made by the researcher (frequency, association, causal)

4. Results of the research study (Did the media article accurately represent the results of the study?)

5. Sample/Population (Are the people they used in the experiment different than the people the media claim is describing?)