Sample Informed Consent Form for PsychExperiments
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Sample Informed Consent Form for PsychExperiments |
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| Title: Mirror Drawing | |
| Investigators: Registered users of PsychExperiments. Users consist of psychology students and faculty. | |
| Description: This research project is being conducted as an exercise in experimental psychology. The task is a computerized version of a venerable motor learning task known as mirror drawing. Typical mirror drawing tasks are conducted using paper, pencil, and a mirror. For example, individuals might be asked to trace a pattern with first one hand and then the other while observing their movements in a mirror. This experiment replicates the experience of drawing using visual feedback from a mirror by reversing the on-screen consequences of mouse movements. Moving the mouse up will cause a line to be drawn down. Moving the mouse to the right will cause a line to be drawn to the left | |
| Risks and benefits: There are absolutely no risks associated with this experiment. The benefits are the contribution to our understanding of the influence of presentation modality on experiments, the opportunity to experience methods of data collection and measurement that are common in cognitive psychology, and the opportunity to contribute data to a project used in the training of students in cognitive science. | |
| Confidentiality: Your data are recorded with no identifier other than the ID number that is assigned randomly by this program. A separate restricted-access file is written to the server that includes the UserName that you enter, the ID number, time, and date. Instructors awarding credit to students who participate in the experiment are given access to this file. If you desire complete anonymity, accept the default user name of "Guest" or enter a false name. | |
| Right to withdraw: No data are transferred from your experimental session until you agree to the transfer. Thus, if you want to participate in this experiment without sharing your data with registered users, you may do so. Simply click on "Don't Send" when asked if you want your data sent to the PsychExperiments Web server at the University of Mississippi. Choosing to not send data will not prevent you from receiving any benefits that you might have been promised as an incentive for participation. | |
| Use of Your Data: The PsychExperiments database is a cumulative archive of all the data collected using each of the experiments. The most common use of data from the archive is for educational exercises in data analysis and data description. In the event that the cumulative data set is perceived to be of value to psychological science, data reports based on the cumulative set may be prepared for submission to professional journals. | |
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