ethical issues - classic studies Flashcards
ethical issues in social classic study
Sherif refused parents to see their children as he said it would make them homesick.
No informed consent because pp’s too young to consent and parents also did not consent for them to be studied.
However, it was ethical because it needed to deceive pp’s in order to get valid results of prejudices and natural behaviours.
ethical issues in cognitive classic study
Baddley’s study was a lab experiment and involved pp’s being taken out of a natural setting and putting them in a strange situation. This could be stressful.
ethical issues in biological classic study
all pp’s consented to doing a brain scan so that criminals could gather evidence to help their case (NGRI)
However, implication that they were forced to consent, as they were wishing to gather evidence for their case as criminals and so had no choice.
It is unethical because all pp’s both control and criminals were forced to be off medication 2 weeks prior to study which could have led to harmful side effects they had to endure.
Pet scanning involves being injected with radioactive tracer which is invasive.
ethical issues in learning classic study
little Albert faced trauma when they conditioning him into fearing white things and so caused him to face psychological harm.
His mother was distressed and took little Albert to hospital before they could unconditioned him and so left in a different psychological state.
Parental consent was given by mother before the study was conducted however given his age, little albert himself was not able to give consent due to his lack of speech and was studied out of his will and so lack of informed consent
ethical issues in clinical classic study
psychological harm to psychiatrists when they found out their diagnoses were incorrect and made them feel incompetent
Psychiatrists didn’t give informed consent to take part and be observed in the study (covert observation)
psychological harm to the pseudo-patients, faced abuse from hospital staff and witnessed abuse to other patients (traumatic)
