PSY 306 EXAM 1 – Ethics Verified Answers
What are ethics? Distinguish between each of the three ethical perspectives discussed in class.
️Ethics: The application of moral principles concerning what an individual considers right and wrong
to help guide one to one's decisions and behaviors ...
PSY 306 EXAM 1 – Ethics Verified Answers
What are ethics? Distinguish between each of the three ethical perspectives discussed in class.
✔️Ethics: The application of moral principles concerning what an individual considers right and wrong
to help guide one to one's decisions and behaviors
1) Utilitarian Perspective: Greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people
2) Altruistic Perspective: Helping others without personal benefit
3) Egoism: Doing what benefits you and your own self-interest
Know all of the pertinent details of the Tuskegee Syphilis study, as reviewed in the Deadly Deception
film and in class. ✔️- A 40-year study (1932-1972) where 400 black, low-income, illiterate men from
Tuskegee, Alabama were used to observe the long-term effects of untreated Syphilis
- They were unaware that they were participants in the study and were never told that they had syphilis
- They were never given treatment even after the invention of penicillin and were instead provided with
a placebo; over two dozen participants died as a result of the lack of treatment; 40 wives were infected
and 19 children were born with a form of syphilis as a result
- IRB: Administrative body required by the federal government to protect the rights and welfare of
people who are recruited to be participants in research.
- It also exposed how racism, bias, and discrimination can influence science
- Freimuth et al: The experiment led to a deep mistrust of the medical and scientific community from
blacks
Wendell Johnson ✔️- A speech pathologist who hypothesized that stuttering was a learned behavior
resulting from parent criticism
- He experimented on 22 orphaned children, repeatedly told them they were stutterers, and then
berated them whenever they had a speech imperfection in an effort to turn them into stutterers
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