2.6 issues and debates (cognitive)

Question 1

what are the BPS guidelines for ethics?

Answer 1

• respect
• integrity
• competence
• responsibility

Question 2

what is respect?

Answer 2

• psychologists have to value the dignity of all people of all backgrounds and their privacy must be respected
• informed consent and right to withdraw must be followed

Question 3

what is integrity?

Answer 3

psychologists should be honest and accurate in all research, including when results are published

Question 4

what is competence?

Answer 4

psychologists should be fully able to carry out the work assigned to them and have awareness of their ability and work within them

Question 5

what is responsibility?

Answer 5

psychologists must ensure any research does not damage the reputation of psychology and participants are protected from harm and debriefed at the end

Question 6

what’s nature?

Answer 6

behaviours which occur due to innate factors, so all behaviour is hardwired

Question 7

what is nurture?

Answer 7

behaviours which have occurred due to the environment

Question 8

what’s a cognitive psych study that favours nurture?

Answer 8

• Bartlett
• states we reconstruct memories everytime we recall them
• suggests we fill in gaps in our memory using schemas
• we all have different experiences and so schemas are determined by environment — nurture
• e.g when British ppl changed canoe into boat

Question 9

what’s a cognitive psych study that favours nature?

Answer 9

• MSM
• states we all innately have a sensory, STM and LTM store
• the ability to encode, store and retrieve memories is nature
• baddeley found STM is acoustic and LTM is semantic