3.110 A cheating experiment. A psychologist conducts the following experiment. S

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3.110 A cheating experiment. A psychologist conducts the following experiment. She measures the attitude of subjects toward cheating and then has them play a game rigged so that winning without cheating is impossible. The computer that organizes the game also records-unknown to the subjects-whether or not they cheat. Then attitude toward cheating is retested. Subjects who cheat tend to change their attitudes to find cheating more acceptable. Those who resist the temptation to cheat tend to condemn cheating more strongly on the second test of attitude. These results confirm the psychologist's theory. This experiment tempts r subjects to cheat. The subjects are led to believe that they can cheat secretly when, in fact, they are observed. Is this experiment ethically objectionable? Explain your position.

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In, the above given experiment that is experiment to see the effect of cheating in the attitude is ethically objectionable, because in this experiment experimenter want subject to adapt cheating is in his attitude to win the game, which no doubt prove the experiment but somehow also impacted the behaviour of subject. He, ll understant adapt that cheating is good for the winning and ll adapt it forever. That's why this way is not good to conduct `experiment or its need to change some pattern so that it not hamper behaviour of subject.

Because, experiments are done for the help of common people and with any experiment it harms them only then what's the use of those experiment.

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