Ethical Issues in Psychology

• What are the 5 BPS guidelines?

  • Informed consent
  • avoid deception
  • protection from harm
  • right to withdraw
  • confidenciality
• what is informed consent?

  Permission given by a person after they have been fully informed about the risks, benefits, and alternatives of a medical procedure or research study.
• What is deception?

  The act of misleading or tricking someone about the purpose of the study
• when is it neccessary to use deception?

  when the participant may guess what the aim of the study is and they can respond to demand characteristics
• What is protection from harm?

  where the researcher must make sure the participants are in no more physical and emotional harm than they would be in normal life.
• what is the right to withdraw?

  Participants have the right to stop the study at any point and the researcher must tell them they have this right
• what is confidentiality?


  where researchers must keep the identity of their participants anonymous