AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -However, obtaining adequately informed consent from patients is complex because it requires human interactions involving discussion of several elements, such as the patient’s condition and therapeutic options, including risks and benefits, inconveniences, and uncertainties.

Detailed explanation-2: -widely regarded as the cornerstone of ethical research on human subjects. They declared that participants must give informed consent, there must be a substantial scientific basis for the study, and experiments should yield findings that cannot be obtained any other way.

Detailed explanation-3: -Informed consent is one of the founding principles of research ethics. Its intent is that human participants can enter research freely (voluntarily) with full information about what it means for them to take part, and that they give consent before they enter the research.

Detailed explanation-4: -We cannot give informed consent when we are very young or very ill, mentally impaired, demented or unconscious, or merely frail or confused. Often people cannot give informed consent to emergency treatment.