Who are the BPS
Standards and ethical guidelines in the UK
What are the 4 principles of the BPS
Respect
Competence
Responsibility
Integrity
What should the researcher do with informed consent
Reveal true aims of study and declare what will happen, and risks or benefits with staking part
What can the participants do if they do not want to participate
They have the right to withdraw
What is deception
The researcher may warp the truth of the true aims of the study to avoid the display of demand characteristics
How can researchers protect the participants from physical or psychological harm
They must state what will happen in study. They must ensure that the risk of harm is no greater than what could happen in ordinary life
How does research remain confidential
The researcher must ensure work is anonymised and that participants can not be identified in a published article
What type of experiment makes it harder to maintain privacy
During a field experiment conducted in a public space
What are the 6 ethical issues
-Informed consent
-Deception
-Right to withdraw
-Protection from physical and psychological harm
-confidentiality
-privacy
3 ways of dealing with ethical concerns
Risk assessments
Research ethics committee
Punishment
What are risk assessments
Identify potential physical or psychological harm and way up long term gains with short term risks
What is the research ethics committee
Group of people that approve a study before it begins - concerned with dignity, rights and welfare of participants
5 ways to deal with ethical concerns
Cost benefit analysis
Ethical guidelines+ committees
Rights to withdraw
Debriefing
Informed consent
What is cost benefit analysis
Cost is weighed up between the benefits
Limitations of cost benefit analysis
Difficult to predict what the costs or benefits may be
Limitations of ethical guideline committees
-Guidelines vague
-May be used to justify unethical behaviour
What is the right to withdraw
Participants can leave study at any time
Limitations of right to withdraw
Withdraw can’t undo any harm caused
What is debriefing
A short post experiment interview which tells participants the true aims of the study and they can ask questions
Limitations of debriefing
Can’t undo harm caused
Not always chance to debrief such as in a field experiment
What is informed consent
Consent form before a study
What is presumptive consent
Ask a similar group for consent
What is retrospective consent
Getting consent after study
Limitations of informed consent
May not know what they are consenting to
-
Self Report Techniques20
-
Ethical Issues24
-
Experiments17
-
Experimental Design12
-
Observations18
-
Observational Design13
-
Meta Analysis10
-
Correlations8
-
Hypotheses5
-
Sampling Methods20
-
Extraneous Variables9
-
Peer Review And Pilot Studies11
-
Psychology And The Economy10
-
Features Of Science15
-
Content Analysis2
-
Reliability11
-
Statistics27
