GCU Ethical Principles Articulated by American Psychological Association Essay
We have navigated through much research to date. As you know, ethical considerations are vital during this process. After reading about Milgram’s compliance experiment and many of the early studies in social psychology, it becomes clear that participants in social psychology have suffered harm. There are safeguards in place today within the American Psychological Association’s Code of Ethics (2016) with regard to research. Institutional Review Boards have also been put in place to protect both human and animal research participants.
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Imagine your CLC group sits on an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and someone like Phillip Zombardo or Stanley Milgram provides you with a research proposal to conduct the same experiment(s).
Task: Do some research and chose an unethical study that has been conducted thus far, Monster Study
The Monster Study
(1939) The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in
Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa.
Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment
and he supervised her research.
After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive
speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and
negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech
imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking
orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative
psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their
life.
Dubbed “The Monster Study” by some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he
would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept
hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human
experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa
publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001.
Your job is to approve the study, approve with modifications, or reject the study completely. Using the APA Code of Ethics, justify your group’s determination. The code of ethics can be found at http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx
Answer this question:
Using the APA Code of Ethics, identify at least five specific ethic codes that were violated with this study. Be sure to explain why there was a code violation.