A cognitive psychologist was interested in the relationship between sleep quality and working memory capacity. She conducted a correlational study using a self-selected sample of 40 university students.
Each participant completed a standardized sleep quality index (giving a score out of 50) and a computerized digit-span task to measure working memory capacity. The results for each student were recorded alongside their student ID numbers.
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.