Ethics in Research (Topic A)

You need to know:
 * Informed Consent
 * Right to withdraw

Informed Consent
An individual's right to know what will happen in an experiment, and its aim, before agreeing to participate.

Deception is when the participants are tricked in order to hide the aim of the experiment.

Sometimes this is necessary for the experiment.

In the exam, you will be expected how to solve issues like informed consent. For example, you can say that to solve informed consent you must inform the participants of the study's aims and avoid deception.

You need to identify informed consent as an ethical issue in a sample experiment.

Right to Withdraw
A participant's right to know what will happen in an experiment, and its aims, before agreeing to participate.

In an experiment a participant needs to be able to withdraw at any time in order for the study to be ethical.

In the exam you need to identify this ethical issue