Psychology- Ethical issues
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- Ethical issues
- Informed consent
- Informed consent involves making participants aware of the aims of the research, the procedures and their rights
- Participants should be issued with a consent letter or form detailing all relevant information.
- If participants are under 16, it is their right to have parental consent
- Deception
- Deception means deliberately misleading or withholding information from participants at any stage .
- At the end of a study, participants should be given a full debrief. Within this, participants should be made aware of the true aims and what their data will be used for.
- They should be offered counselling after if the participant has been subject to stress or embarrassment
- Protection from harm
- Participants should not be placed at any more risks than they would be in their daily lives. They should be in . the same psychological state as they were at the start
- Protection from harm
- Protection from harm
- Participants should not be placed at any more risks than they would be in their daily lives. They should be in . the same psychological state as they were at the start
- Confidentiality
- Participants have the right to control information about themselves.
- Remain anonymity, don't use participants name and tell participants their data will be kept private
- BPS code of conduct
- British psychological society has a set of ethical guidelines that researchers have to follow.
- Informed consent
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