Discuss Ethical Considerations Related to Research Studies and the Biological Loa

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Discuss ethical considerations related to research studies and the biological LOA. In the case studies of Clive Wearing, HM and Sperry ethical issues may be presented as all of participants were not always fully aware of the studies being done. HM and Wearing suffered of anterograde amnesia meaning they could not retain information or memories for longer than a few moments. This caused some ethical issues with consent and deception. Whereas Sperry’s study involved participants who were fully aware of the studies and experiments being done however the ethical issues concerned with this involved participant protection. Wearing was unable to store new memories there may have been ethical issues involving his consent as he was unable to retain new memories he could have consented to the studies of him however he could not have been fully aware of this for very long. This taken into account his wife being considerate enough to care for him would have given this study much consideration. Wearing’s study was conducted even though there was no motion of him fully giving consent because the study would have taken more than 30 seconds to explain and therefore Wearing would have not been able to fully understand the entire study before he “regained consciousness”. The participant was not fully aware of studies being conducted as he forgot just moments later. He did not know he could withdraw from the study, as he could not remember things from moments before. The study was not confidential; it was a documentary about Clive Wearing and studies done on him. The experiment would be tedious for Wearing however having anterograde amnesia would not be able to understand the tediousness as each time he would be doing the study it would feel like the first time ever. So the participant was never harmed by this study. HM or Henry Molaison was tested and had been subject to
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