Psychology A-Level
ethical planning
What ethical planning means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of ethical planning
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Reference: OCR
Naming the issue this procedure raises and offering a workable safeguard, such as presumptive consent and a full debrief where deception is unavoidable.
Topics that use ethical planning
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- behavioural category
- confounding variables
- Counterbalancing
- directional and non-directional hypotheses
- event sampling
- experimental control
- operationalisation
- order effects
Using ethical planning in the exam
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