Ethical Issues and Ways of Dealing with Them

• Ethical issues


  Points of concern about what is morally right
• Informed consent


  An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.
• Deception


  A trick: an attempt to make someone believe something that is not true
• Protection from harm


  Participants should not be put through anything they wouldn't normally be expected to.
• Privacy and Confidentiality


  Protect the privacy of the participant, generally by keeping all responses confidential.
• BPS code of ethics


  - A quasi-legal document produced by the British Psychological Society (BPS) that instructs psychologists in the UK about what behaviour is and is not acceptable when dealing with participants.

  - It is built around four major principles: respect, competence, responsibility and integrity.
• Debrief


  To explain the purposes and methods of a completed procedure to a participant