Intro to Ethics of Professional Psychologist

==What is Ethics?==

• “Éthos”(gr. Εθοζ) –– habit, custom
• “Èthos” (gr. Ηθοζ) – living place, belief, moral, inner stance
• MORALITAS (lat.) – character, modus, appropriate behavior → MORALITY
• Moral theory   * General ethics   * Personal ethics   * Sector ethics
• What is good/bad
• Part of the theory of value
• First mentioned by Aristotle

==Psychology==

• scientific discipline   * Knowledge and skills built up from research and practice
• services to clients   * Ethics of developing knowledge and actions taken to apply it to meet demands for services to be delivered to the public

@@Psychology as scientific discipline@@

• When doing research with human participants, should we employ different standards that when with animals?
• religion, culture, expectations
• values
• actions of researchers

@@Interaction@@

• $topic$   * Are there topics that should not be studied?   * Are there contexts that can raise ethical questions?
• $method$   * Individual – interpersonal   * High- low intrusiveness   * The vulnerability of a participant
• $dissemination$   * %%Publication and dissemination%%     * ^^Integrity^^       * Exact       * Honest       * Clear     * ^^Different means for different public^^
• $“End justifies means?”$   * non-ethical topic but necessary results?
• $Biases of psychologists$   * liberal vs conservative   * representation

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