Ethical Implications

Question 1

What are ethical guidelines?

Answer 1

A set of principles set out by the BPS to help psychologists behave honestly and with integrity.

Question 2

What are ethical issues?

Answer 2

Issues that arise when there is a conflict between the rights of the participant and the aims of the researcher.

Question 3

What are ethical implications?

Answer 3

The consequences that psychological research has on the rights of other people in the wider context (not just the participants in the research).

Question 4

What is socially sensitive research?

Answer 4

Any research that may have direct social consequences for the participants in the research or the group that they represent (e.g. resulting in discrimination or prejudice).

Question 5

What are example case studies that have ethical implications?

Answer 5

-Bowlby’s theory of attachment.
-Role of the father.
-IQ testing.

Question 6

How does Bowlby’s theory of attachment have ethical implications?

Answer 6

Ethical implications on women going to work- they should avoid doing so, as if any disorders occurs for the child, it will be their fault.

Question 7

How does role of the father have ethical implications?

Answer 7

Socially sensitive- women have to do the job of raising the child while men have the fun playing part.

Question 8

How does IQ testing have ethical implications?

Answer 8

Culturally relative- on average, black men scored 15 points less than white men, reinforcing racial stereotypes.