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Week 3
Ethics and Critical Evaluation in Psychology - Psychology 1A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| APS Code of Ethics | - sets out a series of principles of ethics and professional practice in psychology - three main principles: respect for the rights and dignity of people and peoples; propriety; integrity |
| National Health and Medical Research Council Guidelines | - merit - integrity - justice - beneficence - respect |
| Informed consent | a participant's ability to participate in a study in an informed manner |
| Confidentiality | the act of keeping information gained while engaging in psychological research safeguarded so that it remains confidential |
| Deception | the deliberate act of not revealing the true purpose of an experiment before the study commences |
| Replicability | an experiment or study is replicable if it can produce the same results when repeated |
| 'Crisis of Replicability' | refers to the difficulties researchers have found in replicating results of earlier research |
| Critical thinking | involves carefully examining and analysing information to judge its value as well as considering other views and explanations before accepting the truthfulness of that information |
| Key principles of critical thinking | scepticism, objectivity, open-mindedness |
| Scepticism | not accepting an assertion as truth until you have examined the evidence |
| Objectivity | involves making an impartial judgement about something |
| Open-mindedness | considering all sides of an issue, including any alternative explanations that differ from your personal point of view |
| Straw man approach | a fallacy in argument based on attacking an opposing argument for the purpose of strengthening one's own argument |
| Appeals to popularity | the fallacy that a popular or widely believed argument is true |
| Appeals to authority | the fallacy that an argument must be true because of the authority or reputation of the person making it |
| Arguments directed to the person | the fallacy in argument based on attacking the authors of alternative arguments |
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