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The following are steps of a common ethical decision-making model. Please place them in the correct sequence. 1) Moral Judgment, 2) Moral Action, 3) Moral Intention, 4) Moral Awareness
4) Moral Awareness 1) Moral Judgment, 3) Moral Intention, 2) Moral Action
Which of the following is most false concerning unethical activity in research?
A graduate student's first co-authored paper can be "disqualified" if one of the other authors is subsequently shown to have been involved in research misconduct at another institution :)
Which of the following is NOT a fair question to ask yourself re: a potentially unethical situation?
All of the above are fair questions to ask yourself.
Which of the following should NOT be part of ethical decesion making? A. relying on a rational process B. finding the right thing to do C. moving past whats good for you alone D. All above should be part of ehtical decesion
C. moving past whats good for you alone
One of the following is generally considered NOT to be an example of unethical research conduct.
Changing the date of harvest of all the treatments of an experiment because of weather.
A person should not consider personal emotions like anger, fear, guilt and empathy when ascertaining whether something is wrong or unethical?
False
Research misconduct does not include selecting the best data from a set of data to include in a publication.
False
Students who are to be included as an author on a publication should be able to explain the funding agency's ethics policy before participating in research.
False
During your first phone conversation with the Research Integrity Officer at your institution regarding research misconduct...
It is OK to speak in the hypothetical.
Which of the following demonstrates a successful conclusion of an ethical decision-making process?
Moral Action
Research misconduct observed by students is usually not actionable because... Students do not have supervisory responsibility. As junior members of a research team they are not responsible if the observe research misconduct by more senior members of the team. Until they receive their degree they are not considered scientists. They often only participate in a small portion of the research and do not understand the "big picture".
None of the above reasons are correct.
When considering whether to proceed with reporting an observed instance of unethical activities in research (knowing that your own career may be delayed or thwarted) comments from which of the following sources should you suspect might be the most biased?
One of your parents.
Which of the following could be considered an example of unethical research misconduct?
Submitting a manuscript for publication where you fiddled with statistical tests by ignoring important assumptions until you were able to get significant results.
If you suspect someone of falsifying data that will be used in a publication the best approach is to first...
Talk with your institution's Research Integrity Officer.
Determining whether a situation has a "moral dimension" that should be considered can be addressed by asking the question "Why is this setting off alarm bells?"
True
Students who are included as an author on a publication have the same responsibility to review, correct, and evaluate their data included in the paper as do other more senior authors.
True
Which of the following is the most common explanation for failing to act in an ethical manner?
What people may think about the person taking the action.
Which of the follwoing is NOT a fair question to ask yourself re: a potentially unehtical situation? A. would my peers in research see an ethical issue here? B. Am i putting anyone at risk if i do nothing? C. is something bad likely to happen here? D. all of above question are fair to ask yourself
all of the above
A person's innate ethical decision-making can be improved with practice.
true
When questioning whether something a person did is unethical it is best to be aware of any personal feelings you may have towards that person.
true
