Psychology-Ethical concepts

Identify all the ethical guidelines for Psychological research

• Ethics

• Deception

• Debriefing

• Withdrawal rights

• informed consent

• Voluntary Participation

• confidentiality

Define Confidentiality

refers to the privacy,, protection, and security of a participants personal information in terms of personal details and anonymity of individual results, including removal of indentifying elements.

Define informed consent

are the processes that ensures participants understand the nature and purpose of the experiment, including potential risks before agreeing to participate.

Define Use of deception

refers to the act of intentionally misleading participants about the true nature of a study or procedure.

Define debriefing

is a procedure that ensures at the end of the experiment, participants leave understanding the experimental aim, results and conclusion.

Identify the ethical concepts

• Beneficence

• integrity

• justice

• non-maleficence

• respect

Define Beneficence

refers to the commitment to maximizing benefits and minise the risks and harms involved in taking a particular position or course of action

Define integrity

is the commitment to searching for knowledge and understanding, and the honest reporting of all sources of information.

Define Justice

is the moral obligation to ensure that there is fair consideration of comparing claims, that there is no unfair burden on particular groups from an action.

Define non-maleficence

is the principle of avoiding causing harm. However, as a position or course of action may involve some degree of harm, the concept of non-maleficence implies that the harm resulting from any actions should not be disproportionate to the benefits.

Define respect

the consideration of the extent to which living things have an intrinsic value, giving due regard to the welfare, liberty and autonomy and beliefs to the participants.