Ethical Implications

Question 1

What are ethical implications?

Answer 1

• ethical guidelines protecting individuals

- research also has effect on public opinion and policy

Question 2

what is socially sensitive research?

Answer 2

• research that has potentially consequence for the participants
• psychologists have social responsibilities to carry this out

Question 3

what are ethical issues in socially sensitive research?

Answer 3

• Sieber and Stanley identified concerns:

implications, user/public policy, validity of reseach

Question 4

+ benefits of socially sensitive research on society

Answer 4

• can reduce prejudice and effects of unreliability of eyewitness testimony

Question 5

• social control

Answer 5

• 1920’s america sterilised the feeble minded based on psychological research of IQ
• Goddard, scientific racism (Gould ) is the outcome of socially sensitive research

Question 6

cost and benefits hard to predict

Answer 6

• this research is subject to scrutiny by ethics committee, but cost, benefits and implications implications can be heeded to be predict