Ethics

Question 1

What are ethical guidelines?

Answer 1

• Ethics can be defined as ‘the consideration of what is acceptable or right behaviour in the pursuit of a personal or scientific goal’ (Caldwell, 2000)

Question 2

What are the different concepts used when considering ethics?

Answer 2

• Informed consent
• deception
• right to withdraw
• confidentiality
• debriefing

Question 3

What is informed consent?

Answer 3

• Knowing aims and giving your permission to take part in the study.

Question 4

What is deception?

Answer 4

• Deliberately misleading or withholding information.

Question 5

What is right to withdraw?

Answer 5

• Being able to leave the study/experiment when desired.

Question 6

What is confidentiality?

Answer 6

• Details should be kept private.
• Protection of ppts -> no more harm than daily life (Glass and Singer, 1972).

Question 7

What is debriefing?

Answer 7

• Returning the ppt to the state they were in before the research.