Some research suggests that peer mentoring can ease transition anxiety in young teenagers. To investigate this further, an educational psychologist wants to conduct an experiment to study the effect of a structured peer-support mentoring scheme on Year 7 students transitioning into a large secondary school called 'Oakridge Academy' which has a total of 180 boys and girls aged between 11 and 12.
Identify two ethical considerations in this study and explain how you would address them.
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.