What does an Institutional Review Board do?

A) It provides lists of people who are willing to serve as volunteers in psychological experiments.
B) It maintains statistics on the number and type of experiments conducted at an institution.
C) It helps experimenters evaluate the statistical significance of their data.
D) It judges whether proposed experiments are ethical.

Institutional Review Board

A committee that reviews and oversees the ethical aspects of research involving human subjects, ensuring the protection of their rights and welfare.

Ethical

Pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; relating to right and wrong in conduct.

Psychological Experiments

Research methods used in psychology to collect data and test hypotheses, often involving controlled conditions and variables to study behavior and mental processes.