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Imagine you are designing a laboratory experiment to study whether people work harder when they believe they are competing against a high-performing peer versus a low-performing peer. To manipulate this, you plan to deceive participants by giving them false feedback about another participant's score. Explain how you would apply each of the four conditions of the APA Ethics Code for justifying deception to ensure your research design is ethically permissible.
Question: Imagine you are designing a laboratory experiment to study whether people work harder when they believe they are competing against a high-performing peer versus a low-performing peer. To manipulate this, you plan to deceive participants by giving them false feedback about another participant's score. Explain how you would apply each of the four conditions of the APA Ethics Code for justifying deception to ensure your research design is ethically permissible.
Sample answer: To justify the deception in this study, I must apply the four APA conditions: 1) Scientific benefits must outweigh risks: The study must provide valuable scientific insights into motivation and peer competition that outweigh any minor discomfort. 2) No pain or distress: The false feedback must not cause physical pain or severe emotional distress; the task and feedback should be low-stakes. 3) No nondeceptive alternatives: I must show that alternatives, such as asking participants to imagine competing, would not yield valid behavioral data. 4) Debriefing: I must disclose the false feedback and explain the deception to the participants as soon as possible during the debriefing phase.
Key points:
- Explain how the prospective scientific or educational benefits outweigh the risks of receiving false feedback.
- Ensure the false feedback task is designed so participants do not experience physical pain or severe emotional distress.
- Explain why the research question cannot be feasibly answered using nondeceptive alternatives, such as self-report measures.
- Detail a plan to fully disclose the deception to participants as soon as possible during the debriefing phase.
Rubric: The response must explain how the study design addresses all four conditions for justifying deception under the APA Ethics Code: demonstrating that scientific benefits outweigh risks, ensuring no physical pain or severe emotional distress is caused, justifying the lack of feasible nondeceptive alternatives, and planning a timely debriefing to disclose the deception.
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