VCE Psychology U2 AOS3 2023-27

The ethical concepts guiding Australian psychological research are

• Beneficence

• Integrity

• Justice

• Non-maleficence

• Respect

The ethical guidelines Australians researchers must consider include:

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing

• Informed consent

• Voluntary participation

• Withdrawal rights

used to reduce the influence of any extraneous variable on the experiment and its participants

• Standardised instructions

• Standardised procedures

• Experimenter bias

• Counterbiasing

A Likert scale is an example of

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

• nominal data

• ordinal data

The measures of central tendency are

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

• Standard deviation

a statement outlining the purpose of a research investigation

• Aim

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Discussion

a type of systematic error that can distort measurements and/or affect investigations and their results

• Bias

• Motivation

• Ethics

• Validity

an intensive, in-depth investigation of some behaviour, event or problem of interest in a single individual, group, organisation or situation

• Case study

• Cross-sectional study

• Correlational study

• Single-blind procedure

a decision about what the results obtained from a research investigation mean

• Conclusion

• Discussion

• Generalisation

• Aim

ethical guideline for research involving the privacy, protection and security of a participant’s personal information, including results

• Confidentiality

• Confidence

• Debriefing

• Withdrawal rights