A researcher asks adult volunteers to rate the clarity of a set of photographs. The photographs include images of severe injuries, which the researcher has not told them to expect. Afterwards, participants are asked to rate how distressed they felt.
Explain two ethical issues raised by this study.
182 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.1 Planning Research, covering 7.1.1 Hypotheses, 7.1.2 Variables, 7.1.3 Experimental Designs, 7.1.4 Populations and Sampling, 7.1.5 Ethical issues, and 7.1.6 Dealing with ethical issues and BPS Code. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.