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Monster Cause Study Essay

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How to Treat People who participate in Research Human experiment is a term used when a scientists or doctors test their theories on human in any capacity for research purposes’. Some of them went too far with experiments leading to destroy the means of ethics codes and standers. To do an ethical research one must follow the seven principles to participate on the experiment without hurting anyone. The seven principles are social value, scientific validity, fair subject selection, favorable risk- benefit ratio, Independent review, respect for enrolled Subject and Informed consent. One of the experiments that didn’t follow the principles and had great negative effect on the people who were in the experiment was the monster cause study experiment. …show more content…

Johnson was a stutter himself that’s why he wanted to prove that stuttering wasn’t genetic rather it was due to emotional stress that make children stutter. To make sure that his new notion would work he told Mary to base her research on the orphanage that has relationship with the collage. She chose on twenty two young children to be her subjects on the experiment. 10 of these orphans were stutters before the study began. They were split in two groups the first one was named as “normal’, the second one was named as “stutters”. The first group received favorable treatment as they were encouraged and complimented in their flouncy for their speech. In the other hand the second group has received negative treatment as they were belittled and humiliated for their speech. Because of this treatment these children are now more self consciousness and insecure of their speech some even are not capable of producing any words because they were afraid of punishment and humiliation. Because of the dramatic results of this study some of the children are worse than before. As for the other 12 children even though they were healthy and normal speakers they had the same treatment like the stutters and because of this some of these children who received the negative therapy had actually become stutters. The researchers wanted to cure the children but it no use as the effects seems to be

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