Your Opinion Of The Ethical Guidelines That Are Currently In Use

1. What is your opinion of the ethical guidelines that are currently in use?. Do they restrict scientific discovery or does their leniency allow for possible harm to participants (people/animals)?In my opinion the ethical guidelines that are currently in use do not restrict scientific discovery but sometimes puts the human or animal life in risk. On the ethical guidelines of the AmericanPsychological Association there is a part or a section that says psychologist can carry out a study with deception or to say in another way they can do a research using the deception with the participantif they determine that the technique is justified by the significant scientific value that the discovery means. From my point of view if the psychologist make a study based on lies and much lessthose which people will be given medication that would be violating the rights of volunteers. I know as all the others that read this, that the ethical guidelines protects psychologists who make a studybased on this from any problems that could arise after because there it says clear that they can do it if the end justifies the means, but to me is the obligation of every psychology as citizen theyare respect human rights, principally the dignity and the worth of all people and therefore should not participate in practices based on deceptions since the psychological profession is to serve peopleaimed at solving the problems of the field of health, education, work, etc not risk the lives of others as if they were lab mice.
Psychologist doing this type of research are risking the lives ofpeople and also violating the ethics of studying humans that says clearly that participants should receive enough information to let them decide to participate or freely withdraw from the study if theydo not agree with the information give it. Doctors should tell them they are lying because the research is about that they are not aware of something and explaining them that this is because it...