Ethics

• 4 principles

  Respect

  Competence

  Responsibility

  Integrity
• Respect

  Psychologists should respect individuals, cultural and role differences such as age, disability and gender

  Also knowledge, insight, experience and expertise of participants and members of the public.

  Includes informed consent, right to withdraw, privacy and confidentiality
• Competence

  Psychologists should value continuing development and maintenance of high standards of competence in their professional work.

  Develop and maintain a comprehensive awareness of professional ethics including familiarity of codes of practice.
• Responsibility

  Psychologists have a responsibility to the public, the profession and science of psychology such as protection from harm.

  Includes protection from harm and debriefing
• Integrity

  Psychologists value honesty, accuracy, clarity and fairness with all persons.

  Rules around deception are involved in the integrity rule.
• Main ethical guidelines

  Informed consent

  Right to withdraw

  Privacy and confidentiality

  Protection of participants

  Deception

  Debriefing
• Cost benefit analysis

  Psychologists must weigh up the benefits to society that is gained through testing and the cost of participants within research

  This often produces conflict about treating the participants ethically