social sensitivity

what are ethical guidelines?

• a set of principals set put by the BPS to help psychologists behave with integrity

what are ethical issues?

• problems that arise when there is a conflict between the rights of the participant and the aims of the researcher

what is social sensitivity?

• where the researcher considers the impact that psychological research has on the rights of people in a wider context

what is ethical implications?

• Sieber and Stanley

• where there are potential social consequences for the participants represented by the research

what were the social sensitive issues with Milgram’s research?

• participants were deceived

• unable to give informed consent

• however, they were debriefed

• participants said that they had suffered no long term effects

• it could be argued that the importance of the findings did justify the way the research was conducted

• allowed us to see the factors affecting obedience

• we would have near truly understood our level of obedience

• however it allowed for obedience alibis were people stopped taking responsibly

how did Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis have socially sensitive effects?

• suggested that a child needs a continuous relationship with its mother within the first 5 years

• this created gender stereotypes

• today people stay in hospital with their children for longer