Ethics in Psychological Research

  • 6500 BCE

    Trephination

    drilling a hole in a humans brain, it was the only way to relieve the "demons" from one's brain
  • Nazi Concentration Camp Experiments

    started in the year of 1935 until 1945
  • B.F Skinner- Operant Conditioning Circa 1938

    first shocks to animals
  • Stanley Milgram- Obedience Circa

    first shocks to human participants
  • The Belmont Report

    "The Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research"
  • FDA requiere IRB review of clinical trials

  • "Common Rule"

    protection for pregnant women human fetuses, and neonates.
    protection for children and prisoners