2. Table of contents
• Define Ethics
• What is ethics in psychology
• Ethics factors
• Ethical psychological research guidelines
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3. What is ethics
• Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the
conducting of an activity.
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4. what is ethics in psychology
• Ethics refers to the correct rules of conduct necessary when
carrying out research. We have a moral responsibility to protect
research participants from harm. However important the issue
under investigation psychologists need to remember that they
have a duty to respect the rights and dignity of research
participants.
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5. •Ethics in
Psychological
research
APA
• The American psychological
Association(APA)
“APA is the leading scientific and
professional organization
representing psychology in the
US our mission is to advance the
creation, communication and
application of psychological
knowledge to benefit society
and improve people’s lines”
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6. Ethical factors
• No pressure
• Safety
• Credit
• Communication
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8. Informed consent
• Informed consent is about people's understanding to
participate in your study. Prospective participants in
your research study must understand the purpose, the
procedures, the potential risks and benefits of their
involvement, and their alternatives to participation
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9. Deception
• Sometime for researcher its not possible to explain all process
with participants
• Debriefing before experiment many effect result
• Research should adopt this process if their have no other option
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10. Protection of participants
• Researcher should be take responsibilities of participants physical
and mental harms
• Researcher must be understand with animals participants and
expert in taking care of them
• Researcher should have advance knowledge in biomedical and
participants behaviours for other welfare
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11. Confidentiality
• Researcher must be ask to participants before publish or share
them with other
• Researcher should keep all data and don’t share with any ones
• Researcher should be take responsibilities pf participants privacy
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12. With-draw
• The right to withdraw is a concept in clinical research ethics that
a study participant in a clinical trial has a right to end
participation in that trial at will.
• This is important because some participants may feel pressured
into containing with the study.
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13. Debrief
• Debrief is conducted with the participants after the study has
taken place.
• It has a number of aims:
Firstly its aims to ensures that none of the participant have been h
armed in any way by study
Secondly, its aims to make sure that the researchers have
informed consent
Thirdly , it allow the participants an opportunity to remove their
results form the study
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