I&D7. Ethical Implications

Question 1

Socially-Sensitive Research

Answer 1

• research that might have direct social consequences for the participants, or the group/class of individuals they may represent

Question 2

BPS Ethical Guidelines

Answer 2

• respect, competence, responsibility, integrity

Question 3

Ethical Issues Arising from BPS Breach

Answer 3

• privacy, deception, informed consent, equitable treatment

Question 4

Example (Bowlby)

Answer 4

• adviser to WHO
• Research on Maternal Deprivation (Critical Attachment Period 2 years) (AP, MR)
• Britain therefore didn’t offer free childcare for children under 5

Question 5

Example (Burt)

Answer 5

• 1955: fraudulent research
• “heritability coefficient for intelligence = 0.77”
• played significant role in 11+ development
• fraud proven, yet exams still exist, and children still organised according to ‘natural intelligence’

Question 6

+ Eval: Importance of Carrying out SS research

Answer 6

challenge stereotypes, or ‘scientific justifications’ for discrimination (Lombroso)

Question 7

• Eval: Social Control

Answer 7

• historically used as ‘scientific justifications’ for discrimination
• e.g. USA 1920/30s ‘voluntary sterilisation programmes’ (mentally ill, disabled, and drug addicts
• e.g. Lombroso ‘Atavistic Form’