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| involves withholding information or misleading participants. It might be necessary because participants knowledge of the situation could effect their behaviour and invalidate the research BUT p's may be psychologically or physically damaged by the research yet will not have had the opportunity to refuse to partiipate. |
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MILGRAM - did a study of a self selected sample of 40 male volunteers. Decieved into thinking they were taking part in a word association test and if they got a word wrong they were shocked.
it breaks ethical guidelines and only 3% of participants went up to 450 volts. |
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FOR - impossible to research some aspects of human behaviour without deception e.g. in the field of social influence.
- so called alternatives e.g.role play are unsatisfactory
- questionnaires are not a reliable guide to human behaviour
AGAINST - prevents informed consent
brings psychology into disrepute and may decrease the number of participants willing to participate. |
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| the essence of informed consent is that the human participants of research should be allowed to agree or refuse to participate in the light of conprehensive information concerning the nature and purpose of the research and their role in it. the more potentially serious the risk, the more p's need to know before agreeing to take part. |
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