A researcher investigating the bystander effect plans to stage a fake theft in a university cafeteria. To address the issue of informed consent without revealing the study's aim to the actual participants beforehand, the researcher describes the proposed procedure to a separate group of students from the same university and asks if they would be willing to participate. Which method of dealing with the lack of informed consent is the researcher utilising?
Prior general consent
Presumptive consent
Retrospective consent
Debriefing
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.