Topic 4 - Morality, Ethics and the world around us
Statement of Inquiry - "Morality and ethics unite people across the world more than they divide them"
Lesson 1 - Measuring Behaviour: Ethics in Psychological Experiments
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Statement of Inquiry - "Morality and ethics unite people across the world more than they divide them"
Lesson 1 - Measuring Behaviour: Ethics in Psychological Experiments
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Click here for Stan's dilemma
Task
What is the issue with measuring moral development with the Kohlberg model?
Ethics in Psychology
Measuring human behaviour is much more complex than the previous model suggests...it just doesn’t work!
But to experiment on people you need to show that you adhere to ethics in your experiments
Keyword
Ethics - Principles that govern peoples behaviour
So how do we know if a psychological experiment is ethically sound before it is conducted? Well, there are some rules around this that you could handily remember as CRIP...
Confidentiality
Right to withdraw
Informed Consent
Psychological harm
Task
Copy the table below.
Using the information on Psychological Studies here, fill in the table and pick out where the Ethical (CRIP) issues were.
Task
What is the issue with measuring moral development with the Kohlberg model?
Ethics in Psychology
Measuring human behaviour is much more complex than the previous model suggests...it just doesn’t work!
But to experiment on people you need to show that you adhere to ethics in your experiments
Keyword
Ethics - Principles that govern peoples behaviour
So how do we know if a psychological experiment is ethically sound before it is conducted? Well, there are some rules around this that you could handily remember as CRIP...
Confidentiality
Right to withdraw
Informed Consent
Psychological harm
Task
Copy the table below.
Using the information on Psychological Studies here, fill in the table and pick out where the Ethical (CRIP) issues were.
Task
Design a Safety Poster to explain CRIPS to trainee psychologists
Lesson 2 - Does Altruism Exist?
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What would you do if you found a $500 dollar note on the floor?
What about a $5000 dollar note?
Keyword
Prosocial behaviour - Prosocial behaviour is any action intended to help others, whether for a clear reward or not.
Task
Prosocial behaviour or not, why do we do things that don’t benefit us?
What increases the likelihood of helping someone?
Task
Design a Safety Poster to explain CRIPS to trainee psychologists
Lesson 2 - Does Altruism Exist?
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What would you do if you found a $500 dollar note on the floor?
What about a $5000 dollar note?
Keyword
Prosocial behaviour - Prosocial behaviour is any action intended to help others, whether for a clear reward or not.
Task
Prosocial behaviour or not, why do we do things that don’t benefit us?
What increases the likelihood of helping someone?
Task
Explain the two models that attempt to explain altruistic behaviour
Task
What influences whether people will act altruistically?
The Bystander Effect
Task
What influences whether people will act altruistically?
The Bystander Effect
Task
Does Altruism exist?
Answer referring to as many ideas & explanations of altruistic behaviour covered in the lesson as possible.
Extension - Is being a teacher altruistic? Is it prosocial?
Lesson 3 - Are some places in the world "nicer" than others?
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The Levine Study, 1990
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1. Use the information in the table to graph the helping rates of the countries. Colour code them by continent. A bar chart is recommended.
2. What was the Levine Study?
3. What conclusions could be drawn from it?
4. What were some of the things that could have influenced the results of this study that could not have been avoided?
Task - How nice is Hong Kong?
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Lesson 4 - Is prosocial behaviour linked to happiness?
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Does Altruism exist?
Answer referring to as many ideas & explanations of altruistic behaviour covered in the lesson as possible.
Extension - Is being a teacher altruistic? Is it prosocial?
Lesson 3 - Are some places in the world "nicer" than others?
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The Levine Study, 1990
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1. Use the information in the table to graph the helping rates of the countries. Colour code them by continent. A bar chart is recommended.
2. What was the Levine Study?
3. What conclusions could be drawn from it?
4. What were some of the things that could have influenced the results of this study that could not have been avoided?
Task - How nice is Hong Kong?
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Lesson 4 - Is prosocial behaviour linked to happiness?
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