ethics

• There are 5 main ethical issues:

  • deception
  • risk to ppt values,beliefs relationships , relationship or privacy
  • valid consent
  • protection
  • confidentiality
• deception = ppts aren’t told the true aims of the study and are misled
• Risk to ppts beliefs and relationships = attitudes are challenged and attitudes are kept secret
• valid consent = ppts are asked to give permission to take part in the study and should know the nature of it
• protection of ppt = protected psychologically and physically
• confidentiality = ppts details and data remain anonymous
• to deal with deception, you should give your ppts a debrief, right to withdraw or could obtain presumptive consent
• to deal with valid consent, you can gain it by presumptive , prior informed and parental
• to deal with protection from harm , you can give your ppts the right to withdraw and debrief
• risk to values and privacy , conduct field studies in a public area and the right to with draw
• to deal with confidentiality, keep identities anonymous
• an ethics committee is a group of people who review research proposals and decide whether the benefits are justifiable for the risk of harm
• members of ethics committee include experts in the field along with lay people
• ethics committees can request researchers make changes to their study or deny approval
• ethics committees are beneficial as they second check the research is ethical
• the british psychological society is a representative body for psychologists and psychology in the UK
• BPS oversees research and application practises of psychology in the UK
• The BPS code of conduct are ethical guidelines that provide a set of moral guidelines to guide research
• researchers have a professional duty to follow the BPS guidelines or could be expelled from the BPS and lose their job