A developmental psychologist wants to investigate the effect of sleep restriction on the cognitive performance and focus of GCSE students. They plan to conduct an experiment where Year 10 students (aged 14–15) at a secondary school called 'Pinehurst Academy' are asked to restrict their sleep to a maximum of 5 hours per night for three consecutive school nights, while a control group maintains their normal sleep routine. Their cognitive performance will be measured using an online attention task before and after the three-day period.
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.