An educational researcher investigated the relationship between a student's daily screen time (measured in minutes via a smartphone tracking app) and their performance on a standardized mental arithmetic test. They obtained a volunteer sample of 50 sixth-form students. The daily screen time logs and mental arithmetic test scores were recorded alongside each student's school email address.
Outline how the following ethical consideration could have been dealt with in this study.
Confidentiality
276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.