Question

The smith family has very little money and no health insurance. a researcher approaches them and promises free health care for their three children for 2 years if he can subject the children to a series of experimental vaccines that may have serious side effects. the smith family feels compelled to participate to get the free health care. according to the apa code of ethics, this researcher is in violation of the principle of:

Answer 1

the researcher violate the principle of informed consent.
informed consent refers to the permission to conduct a certain action and treatment after fully disclosed the potential effect/danger of that action/treatment.
Failing to get informed consent would expose the institution where the researcher works of fine depending on the damage that they caused from the procedure.