Debates Flashcards
Ethical Considerations:
Consent
Participants should give informed consent
Withdrawal
Participants have the right to withdraw from research
Deception
Should avoid deceiving participants
Protection from harm
Protected from physical and psychological harm
Confidentiality
Data kept confidential
Debriefing
Receive a debrief so they leave with the same state of mind they arrived
Observational Research
Participants should only be observed in places where they reasonably expect to be observed
Development and enforcement of ethical guidelines for conducting psychological research defended by
- Participants treated with respect
-Enhances reputation os subject
-Makes it easier for researchers to obtain participants in the future
Psychological Research being ethical
BENIFITS
-Avoids participants leaving the study in a worse state
-Makes replication easier
- Able to obtain other participants in future if treated well
Psychological Research being ethical:
DRAWBACKS
-Limits on research carried out
-Reduces biasses of the study and extraneous variables
-Sampling bias
Situational Explanations
= Suggests behaviour is explained to experience of a person
= Situation determines behaviour
Individual Explanations
=Suggests behaviour is from persons own personality/ Characteristics
=Personality determines behaviour
Individual Strengths
-Supported by evidence of individual differences between people
-Useful (placing people in jobs/relationships)
-People holding account for own behaviour
Individual Weaknesses
- Difficult to predict how people will behave
-Makes generalisations difficult
Situational Strengths
-Supported by evidence of people influenced in situations
- Useful- suggests we change behaviour according to situations
Situational Weaknesses:
-Used as an excuse to explain bad behaviour
-Underpays individual different response
Nature
Suggests we are the product of our genetic inheritance
Nurture
Suggests we are the product of our upbringings/ environment
Nature Strengths
-Supported by evidence of behaviour-difficult change
-Potentially be useful only pointing towards genetic modification or biological modifications
