The APA ethical guidelines help ensure that all psychological research maintains integrity so as not to cause harm or conflict with most moral ethical codes of the human population. However, in some situations the APA ethical guidelines need to be viewed as just that: guidelines. If a study has the potential to benefit humanity as a whole and does not result in permanent or irreparable harm to a human being, then it is necessary to allow some guidelines to be changed or even broken in the interest of human progress and progress scientific. After all, a psychologist's goal and responsibility is to improve our understanding of human behavior and find ways to use this information to improve society and humanity as a whole. In a circumstance that has the potential to achieve this goal, violation of APA ethical guidelines is acceptable as long as the research maintains the integrity of not inflicting irreparable harm or harm to the subjects used. This includes psychological harm, physical harm or social humiliation to any human being regardless of age, size, race, sex, disability or other determining characteristics. The APA ethical guidelines consist of informed consent, deception, debriefing, withdrawal, confidentiality, and protection from harm. Informed consent means informing subjects of the purpose of the study in advance so that the subject can give consent with an understanding of what they are consenting to. This reduces the potential for stress or possible harm. However, there are cases in which the experimenter does not reveal the entirety of the experiment nor the purpose. For example, in Milgram's study on obedience, participants were informed that the... half of the document... is the basis of ethics, where the guidelines require that no participant be harmed in any way because result of or during an experiment or study of any kind. This guideline, when manipulated, causes a huge controversial uproar. For example in Milgram's obedience experiment, when participants were asked to administer electric shocks to helpless victims suffering from loss of self-esteem. In conclusion, APA ethical guidelines may, at times, be urged to conform to the benefit of mankind or scientific progress; However, they should never be manipulated lightly, the APA ethical guidelines are in place for a very specific and concise reason: to maintain the moral integrity of psychological research and to ensure the rights and safety of all those who they participate in the process of bringing more knowledge to the vast fields of psychological science.