A psychologist wants to study how positive reinforcement could help reduce the amount of night-time shouting by patients with dementia who are staying in a hospital unit.

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Assignment 2: Marks 25

Guidelines Assignment 2

 

Credits

Assignment 2 will carry 25 marks

 

 

 

Goal

This assignment is concerning ethics in research proposals.

 

Aside from general ethical principles and code of conduct, there are four main ethical issues that specifically relate to clinical psychology research. These are:

1. Informed consent.

2. Avoidance of harm.

3. Privacy.

4. Review by the academic ethics committee and/or governing health authority or hospital ethics committee.

 

Consider the following cases and explain how these four issues relate to each situation.

1. A psychologist wants to study how positive reinforcement could help reduce the amount of night-time shouting by patients with dementia who are staying in a hospital unit.

 

What ethical questions do you have for the researcher?

1. Informed consent. 2 marks

2. Avoidance of harm. 2 marks

3. Privacy. 2 marks

4. Review by the academic ethics committee; recommendation? 2 marks

 

2. A psychologist wants to carry out a survey amongst mothers attending vaccination appointments with their new-born babies, to assess levels and prevalence of post-partum depression.

 

What ethical questions should she consider?

1. Informed consent. 2 marks

2. Avoidance of harm. 2 marks

3. Privacy. 2 marks

4. Review by the academic ethics committee; recommendation? 2 marks

 

 

3. A psychologist wants to survey teenagers at a local school to assess levels of social anxiety.

What ethical considerations would you think about to advise her?

1. Informed consent. 2 marks

2. Avoidance of harm. 2 marks

3. Privacy. 2 marks

4. Review by the academic ethics committee; recommendation? 2 marks

 

The overall quality of the assignment is very good with few flaws: 1marks.

 

The due date for submission is on 16th November 2021

Kindly avoid Plagiarism and attach plagiarism report along with assignment.

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