Ethical Issues In The Case Of Griggs V. Duke Power 1971

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Issues in Psychological Testing Worksheet
Using the text for this course, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be at least 200 words in length.

1. What are at least two ethical issues associated with psychological testing? What impact do these issues have on the field of psychological testing?

Ethical issues in psychological testing are extremely critical and taken very seriously in modern day experimentation. One ethical issue with testing in modern psychological testing is that matter is to be harmed physically or mentally (American Psychological Association, 2011). Relating back to previous studies I
This case also held a large impact on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which allowed equal opportunity to African Americans (Hogan, 2007). Even though the civil rights act was established to eliminate discrimination and bias amongst the African American pollution cases such as Griggs v Duke clearly show how the rights movement was still a process in which kept being violated. The purpose of this case was to create fairness for African Americans, women and minorities when trying to obtain jobs. The case created the rules that requirements of a job must reasonable associate with job performance (Hogan, 2007). The case created a legal standard that required the validation of testing, in other words there need to be “a relationship between the selection device and job performance” (Hogan, 2007, p. 610). This case showed how testing can have bias and as a result be discriminatory towards certain individuals. The guidelines were to establish fair and equal testing that would refrain from bias. We see this time and time again in psychological testing and how much importance is strained on keeping a test fair to all and bias