Tabasco Dose Report

After initially reading about the Tabasco sauce intervention I was kind of shocked. This seemed to be very unethical at first. However after they furthered explained the purpose of the intervention and highlighted the helpful effects of the intervention my opinioned changed. Though I would want to explore a more effective way that doesn’t make question is this technique unethical. At first I thought they were just spraying tabasco sauce into Sam mouth, which seemed very unethical because given his age this could cause him extreme discomfort. The book highlighted that “whenever Sam began to scream a mixture of water and Tabasco sauce was squirted into his mouth” (Oltmanns, Martin, & Neale, 2014). Once I realized that it was mixed with water