Ethics in psychology Flashcards
What is ethics?
What is wrong v. what is right. Consider the welfare, rights of others.
What is the nature v. nurture debate?
differences between genes is social and cultural aspects.
Explain the bobo doll experiment?
1- Group 1
watched adults treat the bobo dolls badly.
Are made mad
2- Group 2
Saw an adult do non-violent things to the doll.
3- Group 4
no video
Result:
see how treat the dolls when put in a room with toys of guns and hammers, etc.
group 1 violent, group 2 less violent, group 3 even less violent
Who performed the bobo doll experiment?
Albert Bandura
What is Bandura’s social learning theory?
that human interactions in social settings are important when it comes to behaviour (nurture).
What is observational learning?
learning without direct experience, through observing the actions of models.
What is the role of the ethical committee?
make sure that the researchers follow ethical principles. Approve their projects.
Risk-benefit analysis?
cannot accept risks higher than they would face in everyday life. Must outweigh the possible benefits of the study.
Informed consent?
as informed as possible of the key aspects of the study. Keeping in mind the subject-expectancy effect
Right to withdraw from the study?
at any time without negative conscequences.
Debriefing?
come clean after the study. Put the patients in the same state they were before.
Confidentiality?
always keep out the name, data and faces unless specific agreement. just averages.
What kind of study was made on animals to know the role of the hypothalamus?
Primitive region for impulsive behaviour.
eating behaviours of mouse until overweight.
aggression in bull.
What can be done to animals for testing? What is the condition?
pain, stress, suffering, termination of life.
no alternate procedure
Explain the Milgram Experiment?
TEacher and learner.
The teacher gives shock every time the learner gets a question wrong, until very dangerous shocks.
Learner confederate.
Measures authority.
