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Darley and Latané conducted a study with college students who were told they would communicate with other students about emotional stress. Each participant sat alone in a room and was instructed to communicate with other students in other rooms. As it turned out, the "students in other rooms" weren't students at all; they were tape recordings of comments about the topic, so each participant heard the same comments. In the course of a conversation, one of the other students mentioned that they sometimes had seizures. This individual later began having difficulty speaking and asked for help. The researchers recorded the length of time it took each participant to seek help. There was a longer delay in seeking help when participants believed they were communicating with five other students instead of just two. Which ethical principle was violated in this study? 

          Darley and Latané conducted a study with college students who were told they would communicate with other students about emotional stress.
Each participant sat alone in a room and was instructed to communicate with other students in other rooms. As it turned out, the "students in other rooms" weren't students at all; they were tape recordings of comments about the topic, so each participant heard the same comments. In the course of a conversation, one of the other students mentioned that they sometimes had seizures. This individual later began having difficulty speaking and asked for help.
The researchers recorded the length of time it took each participant to seek help. There was a longer delay in seeking help when participants believed they were communicating with five other students instead of just two.
Which ethical principle was violated in this study?
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Darley and Latané conducted a study with college students who were told they would communicate with other students about emotional stress. Each participant sat alone in a room and was instructed to communicate with other students in other rooms. As it turned out, the "students in other rooms" weren't students at all; they were tape recordings of comments about the topic, so each participant heard the same comments. In the course of a conversation, one of the other students mentioned that they sometimes had seizures. This individual later began having difficulty speaking and asked for help. The researchers recorded the length of time it took each participant to seek help. There was a longer delay in seeking help when participants believed they were communicating with five other students instead of just two. Which ethical principle was violated in this study?
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00:01 The young women episode could possibly be triggered by the onset of a mental health disorder such as schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder.
00:14 So first the young women episode maybe could be possibly triggered by the onset of a mental health disorder such as schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder.
01:18 The two possible differential diagnosis for her two possible diagnosis is a schizophrenia which is a chronic and a severe mental disorder characterized by disorganized thinking, hallucination, delusion and social withdrawal.
02:01 It's a chronic mental disorder characterized by disorganized thinking, hallucinations, delusions and social withdrawal.
02:44 So next could possibly the possible diagnosis is this schizoaffective disorder.
02:52 So it is a disorder that combines symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorder.
03:13 Schizophrenia in the patient's presentation of disorganized thought process, orderly hallucinations, social withdrawal are consistent with the symptoms in schizophrenia and the schizoaffective disorder the presence of the mood related symptoms combined with psychotic features as evidenced by the patient's affective flattening and hallucination might say this possibility of the schizoaffective disorder.
03:49 Third that the evidence that have informed each of two possible diagnosis are the patient's symptoms including auditory, hallucination, flat effect, disorganized thought process and social withdrawal.
04:14 Additionally the combination of mood related symptoms psychotic which indicates the potential schizoaffective disorder diagnosis.
04:43 The evidence, the evidence are the, the evidence are the patient's symptoms, auditory hallucination, auditory hallucination, flat effect, disorganized thought process and social withdrawal and social withdrawal...
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