Human ethics

• A confederate is a person who takes place in the research but is not a true participant
• 1920 Watson and Rayner deliberately caused a fear of white rats in a baby through classical conditioning which goes against the code of ethics
• in 1985 the bps finally drew up a set of ethical guidelines
• The bps code of ethics and conduct was created in 2009
• The code has four ethical principles consisting of respect, competence, responsibility and integrity
• Ethical principles are to help decision-making in psychological research by ensuring that participants are treated with respect, their rights are protected, and any potential harm is minimized.
• Respect consists of keeping the dignity of all participants and disregards all differences in social status, gender etc
• Comptenenace specifies that the psychologists must have specialist knowledge
• Responsibility states that acceptance for whatever goes on within their management. Also that the trust of others is not abused
• Integrity highlights that you must be honest and accurate in the testing at all times
• The way to remember the code is DDRIPP
• D stands for deception, participants must be told the bare minimum of what they are going to experience in order not to deceive
• D2 stands for debrief. The participants must be told they have the rights to remove themes or their information from the study at any point. A run down of their rights
• R is the right to withdraw. The participants can remove themselves from the study at any point they are told how to without any harm taking place
• I means informed consent, they must give full consent
• P stands of protection from physical harm, Participants leave the study remaining unharmed
• P2 is Privacy, they have the right to remain anonymous