Most of these exercises pose issues for discussion. There are no right or wrong answers, but there are more and less thoughtful answers.

Question 3.87

3.87 Student subjects.

Students taking Psychology 001 are required to serve as experimental subjects. Students in Psychology 002 are not required to serve, but they are given extra credit if they do so. Students in Psychology 003 are required either to sign up as subjects or to write a term paper. Serving as an experimental subject may be educational, but current ethical standards frown on using “dependent subjects” such as prisoners or charity medical patients. Students are certainly somewhat dependent on their teachers. Do you object to any of these course policies? If so, which ones, and why?

3.87

It mostly depends on the nature of the experiment as to how ethical or unethical it is to be forced to participate.