Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The Institutional Review board plays a huge role in experimental psychology. Their purpose is to monitor experiments involving humans so the researcher does not violate any ethical codes and to protect human subjects from any harm. The IRB reviews all protocols of an experiment before allowing the researcher to actually begin the experiment. It is a requirement of the IRB for all participating subjects to have informed consent regarding the experiment and all that will be involved. There are three types of institutional review boards, which can be seen on the main IRB page
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