Ethics Flashcards
What does ethics mean?
Ethics refers to the rules of conduct necessary when carrying out research
What is an ethics committee?
Committees review proposals to assess if the potential benefits of the research are justifiable in the light of the possible risk of physical or psychological harm
What is an ethical guideline?
Ethical guidelines or codes are used by groups/organisations to define what actions are morally right and wrong
Name the different types of guidelines
- Protection from harm
- Informed Consent
- Withdrawal Rights
- Deception
- Privacy
- Voluntary Participation
- Debriefing
- Confidentiality
What is Protection from harm and how do you enforce it?
Protection from harm refers to protecting participants’ physical and psychological welfare
What is Voluntary participation and how do you enforce it?
A participant must willingly decide to take part in an experiment.
What is Informed consent and how do you enforce it?
written, informed permission from each participant must be obtained before commencement of the research. A guardian must sign if participant is under 18 years.
What is withdrawal rights and how do you enforce it?
A participant has the right to cease their participation in an experiment at anytime without negative consequences or pressure to continue.
This includes after the conclusion of the experiment, in which they can choose to withdraw their results or not participate in follow-up activities.
What is deception and how do you enforce it?
Deception in research is when the research misleads or withholds information from the participants about the nature of the study.
What is debriefing and how do you enforce it?
the process of giving participants in a completed research project a fuller explanation of the study in which they participated than was possible before or during the research. Debriefing is not always required
What is privacy and how do you enforce it?
Privacy is the right of protection from unwanted intrusion by the government or other people into one’s affairs.
What is confidentiality and how do you enforce it?
In research, procedures need to be adopted to ensure that the identities of participants will not be revealed except to people directly involved in the study.
What is comparative psychology?
is the study of animals to attempt to find out about humans
What is the APA?
Australian Psychological Association
What are the 3 R’s?
- Refinement
- Reduction
- Replacement
