A Health Psychologist Plans to Conduct a Study into Alcohol

question 18

Multiple Choice

A health psychologist plans to conduct a study into alcohol use with adolescents in a country where the legal drinking age is 18.She plans to collect a sample of around 40 people under the age of 18 (20 male and 20 female) from a local youth organization and conduct face-to-face interviews and administer questionnaires that measure alcohol consumption, personality, and well-being and she also plans to secretly observe whether the young people accept alcoholic drinks at the end-of-year function organized by the youth organization.Which of the following statements is true?

• A)The only ethical issue in this research is that the young people will be covertly observed.
• B)Covert observation is a matter that the ethics committee would have to consider as it raises numerous concerns about privacy and informed consent.
• C)Covert observation is ethically acceptable so long as deception is not used.
• D)Because hidden cameras are used all the time in reality television (that is only for entertainment), there is no problem in using them in serious scientific research to advance human knowledge.
• E)Both (a)and (b).

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