A researcher planning a study on cognitive aging decides to use a highly specialized clinical diagnostic tool. Realizing they lack the specific training required to administer and interpret this test accurately, they hire a qualified neuropsychologist to conduct these assessments.
Under the British Psychological Society (BPS) Code of Ethics and Conduct, which core ethical principle is the researcher primarily upholding by taking this action?
Responsibility
Respect
Integrity
Competence
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.