ASSIGNMENT OVERVEW
This assignment will help you develop an understanding of the ethical principles that guide psychological research. You will also experience what it is like to be a research participant by taking part in psychological research studies.
For this assignment you will take part in research through the Research Experience Program (REP) and report on your experiences with specific reference to the four Values and Principles of Ethical Conduct as described in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in
Human Research:
1. Research merit and integrity.
2. Justice.
3. Beneficence.
4. Respect.
The National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (Links to an external site.) (NHMRC, 2018) is available as a free download from the National Health and Medical Research Council website.
You MUST read Section 1 of this document (at least).
The Research Experience Program (REP) will open during Week 6. You will need to complete at least four studies to be able to complete Assignment 2. You will receive your password during Week 1 and access to REP will be available by the end of the week.
All research will be conducted online through Sona Systems (Links to an external site.).
You will receive login details to Sona through your Swinburne email. If you have participated in REP before, you will use your current login details, but you may not have full access until later in the week. Once you have received your login details, you need to sign up to some research through Sona Systems.
As you complete each study, take notes about the aim of the study and note how the study addresses the values and principles of ethical conduct. Save these notes or the debriefing statement for each study to use in this assignment.
Note that you must be 18 years of age to participate. If you don’t want to participate or are under 18 years of age, you can participate in Practice Studies on Sona Systems. These will not collect your data but still give you exposure to methods and issues involved in psychological research. With the Practice Studies you will still earn REP marks and be able to complete this assignment.
Use this Sona Systems manual (REP_Sona-Systems-manual) (PDF 2.4 MB) downloadas required. If you have any questions about REP, please refer to the FAQ document (PDF 73 KB) downloadbefore contacting your eLA or REPadmin.
A video with REP information for PSY10007 (Alex Poll, 2020).
A video about SONA systems (Links to an external site.) is available (Alex Poll, 2020).
The following video is from a previous teaching period but also discusses the requirements of REP. It will repeat the information in the videos above but still might be useful if you’re still not sure about how to use SONA.
Play media comment.
Please note that access to Sona Systems will close 5pm AEST Friday 28 May 2021. Ensure you have participated in as many studies as required before this time. No access extensions to Sona Systems will be provided as this is managed by an external team at Swinburne University.
This assignment assesses unit learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
ASSIGNMENT DETAILS
In this assignment you will choose four of the studies you participate in as part of the Research Experience Program (REP) and write a 150–200 word report on how each of the studies addresses the values and principles of ethical conduct. Each report will address one value and principle only, so across the four REP studies, all four values and principles are addressed.
The assignment submission must contain the following components:
1. Assignment title page (not marked but mandatory for submission)
The title page should include the title (Assignment 2: Research ethics), your name, your eLA’s name, and the assignment due date. See page 131 in How to write psychology research reports and essays (Findlay, 2019) for a template of what your title page should look like.
2. Research Experience Program summary table
In this table you will provide the details of all the REP studies you participated in, including title and length, and indicate that the study was conducted online. In the last column of the table indicate (Yes/No) which of the studies you will be writing your 150–200 word reports on.
One mark is allocated to every 1 hour of research participation. A maximum of 5 marks will be allocated for this section.
3. Study reports
You will choose four of the studies you participate in to write each report. Provide the title of each study and the specific ethical value and principle you will address for each study in the spaces provided. Each report should contain:
A brief summary (2–3 sentences) of what you were required to do as a participant in the study. Focus this brief summary on those things in the study that are most relevant to the ethical value and principle you are choosing to address.
A description of how the study appeared to address your chosen ethical value and principle. Include reference to the guidelines in your responses by providing the specific section numbers from the National Statement document (e.g. 1.1–1.13).
You may refer to multiple elements from within each ethical value and principle. For example, if you choose to focus on ‘Justice’, you can refer to all (or any) of 1.4a, 1.4b, 1.4c, 1.4d, 1.4e, 1.4f and 1.5 in your report.
Each study report will be marked out of 5.
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