Alabama Social Studies SS24.P.2c
The Standard
- SS24.P.2
- Describe methodologies, research tools, and strategies used by researchers in psychological studies.*
Describe the role of the American Psychological Association in setting ethical guidelines regarding the use of human and animal subjects in psychological research.*
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies · Introduction to Psychology
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how the American Psychological Association sets ethical guidelines for research with people and animals. They identify protections such as consent and privacy for people, and justified use and humane care for animals.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a study plan, students can spot a missing protection and suggest a fix. They can explain that review committees, not the association, approve individual studies.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a signed consent form allows researchers to cause any level of harm. Some think the association approves every study or that its guidelines ban all animal research.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A researcher plans to study stress without telling participants they may leave at any time. Name the missing protection, suggest a fix, and explain the association's role.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed human and animal study cards to sort by ethical concern, then have them rewrite one plan to address it.
Ask students to write three sentences on whether a researcher should hide a memory study's purpose and what participants should learn afterward.
Play Approve, Revise, or Reject with four short study plans; students must name a specific protection to defend each choice.
Give students a sample school survey permission form and have them circle language about choice, privacy, and the right to stop.
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Related Standards
- SS24.P.1b
Differentiate among various schools of thought and perspectives that have developed in psychology since 1879.*
- SS24.P.1a
Investigate and describe the history of psychology from its beginning to the modern era, including key contributors to the field.*
- SS24.P.2
Describe methodologies, research tools, and strategies used by researchers in psychological studies.*
- SS24.P.1
Trace the development of psychology as a scientific discipline, including its evolution from other fields of study.*
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