Dealing with ethical issues

Question 1

What are ethical guidelines?’s

Answer 1

All Prof such as solicitors et cetera have a specialist organisation consisting of fellow professionals who monitor the behaviour and generally publish a code of ethics

Question 2

Who monitors the behaviour of psychologists in the UK?

Answer 2

The British psychological Society (bps)

Question 3

Who monitors the behaviour of psychologists in the US?

Answer 3

The American psychological Association (APA)

Question 4

What other four principles of the code of ethics and conduct

Answer 4

Integrity, responsibility, competence, respect

Question 5

What is an acronym for remembering the code of ethics and conduct?

Answer 5

I R RC

Question 6

What is The BPS code of human research ethics view on scientific value?

Answer 6

Research should be designed reviewed and conducted in the way that ensures its quality integrity and contribution to the development of knowledge and understanding

Question 7

What is the bps code of human research ethics view on informing participants?

Answer 7

It is recommended that at least one pilot test of the processes for informing and debriefing participants be carried out with a naive person having a literacy level at the lower end of the range expected in the planned research sample

Question 8

What is the bps code of human research ethics of view on giving consents

Answer 8

The consent of participants in research whatever their age or competence should always be sought by means appropriate to their age and competence level

Question 9

What is the bps code of human research ethics view on children under 16 giving them

Answer 9

The additional consent of parents or those with linked legal responsibility should normally be

Question 10

What is the bps code of human research ethics view on consent where the participants capacity to give consent may be impaired?

Answer 10

Additional consent should also be sought from those with legal responsibility for the individual

Question 11

What is an ethical committee?

Answer 11

All institutions where research takes place have an ethical committee who must approve any study before it begins

Question 12

How does an ethical committee decide

Answer 12

A look at all possible ethical issues and at how researchers plan to deal with these weighing up the value of the research against the possible costs in ethical terms

Question 13

What is the cost benefit approach?

Answer 13

The main principle used when dealing with ethical issues is to balance the potential consequences of the research against the potential to produce meaningful findings that can be used to enhance human lives

Question 14

What other weaknesses of the cost benefit decisions?

Answer 14

Judgements are inevitably subjective. Also the costs are not always apparent until after the study. It is also difficult to quantify costs and benefits for example how much does personal distressed cost?

Question 15

What is the weakness of the presumptive consent?

Answer 15

People say they would or wouldn’t mind that is different from actually experiencing it

Question 16

What is the weakness of the debriefing technique

Answer 16

You can’t put the clock back if the participant was distressed by taking part in the research it can’t be undone

Question 17

What are the advantages of the debriefing technique

Answer 17

This gives the researcher an opportunity to assess the effects of the research procedures and offer some form of counselling if necessary

Question 18

Why is the debriefing technique useful when the experiment involves deception?

Answer 18

The researcher is able to explain the true aims of the study and offer participants the right to withhold their data. It also gives the researcher an opportunity to find out more than the participant in relation to the research