A team of clinical psychologists is planning a study to test a new virtual reality (VR) exposure therapy program for young adults with diagnosed severe arachnophobia. During a 30-minute session, participants wear a VR headset and are exposed to highly realistic, immersive simulations of spiders crawling on their hands and face. Throughout the session, researchers monitor the participants' heart rates and galvanic skin response, and ask them to verbally rate their distress level on a scale from 1 to 10 every 2 minutes.
Outline how you would address two ethical considerations in the design of this study.
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.