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Ethical considerations - Banduera - Coggle Diagram
Ethical considerations - Banduera
respect
general respect - used male and female children (only used children as that was the specific sample they wanted to explore in the study) - all children were given a random allocation of models (based on aggression scores)
confidentiality - the children came from Stanford University Nursery school (so you know generally where the children came from) - did film them so you know their faces - lack of confidentiality
informed consent - parents and teachers consented, no consent from the children themselves
self-determination/right to withdraw - unable to withdraw, as children weren't aware they were in an experiment of being filmed
competence
awareness of professional ethics - Banduera was a professor emeritus at Stanford University - experience means he would have a high level of awareness of ethical principles and codes
decision making - Bandeura had done loads of research, so is experienced in making decisions and whether he should do it or not
recognising limits of competence - would be able to determine his own competence, has done prior research before so would know when to seek help and stop working if the experiment went astray
recognising impairment - would be able to determine what he is and is not capable of (experience and title)
responsibility
general responsibility
ensured children were safe from physical harm
although some children were shown in the final stage to portray non-imitative aggressive behaviour (hard to unlearn) - lasting effect, formative memory, potential for long and short term harm
(seeing aggressive model shouting and abusing the bobo doll might have scared them)
continuity of care - participants weren't followed up, short study, only lasted a day for them, limited interaction in the study
protection of research participant
young children, seeing the aggressive model shouting and abusing the bobo doll might have scared them/ mental harm
impressionable young children - lasting effect - may have been a formative memory - subjected to aggressive behaviours - potential for long and short term harm
debriefing - no effort seems to have been made to debrief them afterwards (by explaining that the aggressive adults were only pretending). Bandura would argue that the benefits to society outweighed the risks to any of the children that took part.
integrity
honesty and accuracy - filmed - able to see the observations in real time - show that it wasn't made up
avoiding exploitation and conflicts of interest - no conflict of interest (his children weren't in the nursery) - did use colleges children (might not have wanted for them to look bad)
maintaining personal boundaries - children were not harmed by inappropriate relationships with professionals (kept safe)
addressing ethical misconduct - Bandura would argue that the benefits to society outweighed the risks to any of the children that took part - said it wasn't unethical
OVERALL
OVERALL
I think he did adhere to ethical guidelines overall, he is a more than competent psychologist and highly aware of ethical considerations
although participants had learned some non-imitative behaviour that could be harmful in the long and short term
in the short term children might have been scared of aggressive model
Bandura would argue that the benefits to society outweighed the risks to any of the children that took part - said it wasn't unethical