Ethical considerations (bebate)

Question 1

Key concepts?

Answer 1

Morals:
- The rules of right and wrong to guide our behaviour based on socially agreed principles.

Ethics:
- A moral framework that is applied to a narrow group of people, e.g. psychologists.

Question 2

Applications?

Answer 2

Research:
- psychologist should follow the BPS ethical guidelines and try to ensure their results are used to help people rather than to harm them.

Question 3

Links to core studies?

Answer 3

Milgram:
- Participants experienced a stressful situation that stayed with some of them for the rest of their life.

Bocchiaro:
- Took great care to design an ethical study, considering the moral choices of the participants.

Question 4

Similarities and differences?

Answer 4

Similarities:
- Similar to usefulness (the decision to promote human welfare is an ethical one)

Differences
- Differs from determinism (assumption that rewards/ punishments can determine behaviour is unethical)

Question 5

Evaluations?

Answer 5

+ responsibility
Makes psychologists take personal responsibility for their work and treat participants with respect.

-Narrow
Tends to be about a limited set of issues, ignoring the broader context of how research is used.