01-06-06-RM: Ethical Issues-End of Lesson

Which of the following statements is true?

• Ethics committees are only concerned with whether research is ground-breaking.

• Participants' private information can be shared between psychologists.

• Deception means that full informed consent has not been obtained.

• Participants do not have the right to leave the experiment at any time.

Participants should be made aware of the aims, procedures and their right to withdraw.

• informed consent

• deception

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

Participants should not be deliberately misled.

• informed consent

• deception

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

Participants should not be exposed to any more risk than they would be in everyday life.

• informed consent

• deception

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

Participants' anonymity and privacy must be respected and names should not be recorded.

• informed consent

• deception

• protection from harm

• confidentiality

The code of conduct is in place to protect the rights and dignity of participants.

• true

• false

None of the alternative ways of getting consent are considered 'ideal' by psychologists.

• true

• false

At the beginning of the study, participants should be told the aims and procedures of the investigation.

• briefing

• ethical issues

• BPS

  code of conduct

• debriefing

When a conflict exists between the rights and dignity of the participants and the aims of the research.

• briefing

• ethical issues

• BPS

  code of conduct

• debriefing

A quasi-legal document that instructs psychologists in the UK

about what behaviour is and is not acceptable

• briefing

• ethical issues

• BPS

  code of conduct

• debriefing