At folger university, drs. chase and sanborn are conducting an experiment on the effects of caffeine on memory. participants are randomly assigned to a caffeine or a no-caffeine group; later their recall of items on a word list is assessed. in which answer does the pair correctly identify a variable in this experiment?

Aresearcher conducts a focus group to learn about attitudes towards hygiene and disease prevention. two weeks after the focus group, the researcher learns one of the subjects had a heart attack at home and was hospitalized, but made a full recovery. based on dhs regulations, the researcher report this event to the irb? no, this does not need to be reported since the subject had the heart attack when they were home, not at the focus group.no, this does not need to be reported since it is unrelated to participation in the study.no, this does not need to be reported because two weeks have passed.no, this does not need to be reported since the subject recovered.

According to the federal regulations, which of the following studies meets the definition of research with human subjects? a. a researcher uses the customs office’s passenger lists for ships bringing immigrants to the us between 1820-1845 to track the numbers of immigrants from certain ethnic groups.b. a researcher conducts a linguistic study of comments posted on a local public blog.c. a developmental psychologist videotapes interactions between groups of toddlers and their care givers to determine which intervention methods most effectively manage aggression.d. a researcher asks the director of a local free clinic about the number of patients in the last two years with newly diagnosed hiv/aids.

In writing about her findings in a brazilian shantytown, nancy scheper-hughes’s account of alto do cruzeiro provides a window into the terrible toll of nonconsensual organ harvesting among the poor, as well as how she herself changed over time. how might an anthropologist justify the publication of this ethnographic research when considering the problem of ethnographic authority? a. all of the poor must be given an equal voice, thus polyvocality is justification. b. anthropologists are themselves changed in fieldwork, and so honest reflexivity is justification. c. the horrific conditions made it impossible to ignore, and since she obtained informed consent, this is justification. d. authoritative writing asks us to consider what right we have to report, thus a moral challenge is justification.