Five General Principles Of Apa Ethical Principles

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You must also answer the following questions. Post your answers as a response to this main topic 1. Summarize as succinctly as possible the 5 General Principals of the APA Ethical Principles. There five general principles of APA Ethical Principles; First principle is (a): Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, where a psychologist job is to protect those whom they serve and work with. A psychologist is responsible to protect the welfare and rights and safeguard those who they serve. They also protect other affected persons as well as the welfare of animal subjects to research. It is important that psychologists know that deception in a research can affect the public negatively, and this could be surface via social media and other organization in a negative way. These are issues that psychologist should be aware of as this could affect their own mental health and their ability to help the public. The second principle (b): Fidelity and Responsibility, is when psychologist build a relationship with their staff and they all work together to uphold the professional standards of conduct. A psychologist should build trust and yet still complies with the professional standard of conduct. Also, psychologists need to maintain the appropriate method to manage conflict in their work environment with no compensation. But they must use by …show more content…

Also, I did not know that by participating in a survey that you don’t have to answer all the questions if you decide not to. Most of the times when asked to participate in survey researchers encourage that you complete all the questions so that they can have a more precise study. As a participant, I sometimes when participating i would be depressed by these questions, but I never know I could walk away since I had agreed to conduct the survey

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