RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Cities of Mandaluyong and Pasig
EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
LECTURE ACTIVITY WORKSHEET NO. 1
MODULE 2: RESEARCH ETHICS
Name: ______________________________________ Section: ________________
Imagine you have been assigned the task of sitting on an Institutional Review Board
(IRB) and have been asked to consider the following research proposals. Each
proposal involves ethical issues. Read each proposal and answer the questions that
follows. The deadline of submission is on October 19, 2021.
Proposal Number One
Chloe is interested in whether listening to music while working out makes
people exercise harder. She plans to ask college students to come to the gym and
run on a treadmill for half an hour either while listening to music or in silence. The
dependent measure will be the number of miles run in that time period.
Questions:
1. What additional information might you want to know about the study in order to
decide whether or not it should be approved?
2. What are the benefits that might result from this research? What are the potential
harms?
3. If you were on an IRB reviewing this proposal, what would your recommendation
be?
Proposal Number Two
Samael wants to study the effect of traditional and modern learning to
students to a class in the Grade 7 level for one grading period. He divided the class
into two groups: one group comprises of 20 students that will receive traditional
learning while the other group consists of 23 students that will receive modern
learning. After one grading period, all students will answer the same test questions.
Questions:
1. What additional information might you want to know about the study in order to
decide whether or not it should be approved?
2. What are the benefits that might result from this research? What are the potential
harms?
3. If you were on an IRB reviewing this proposal, what would your recommendation
be?
COURSE TITLE: Experimental Psychology