Legal and Ethical Standards in Psychology
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What is the difference between legal and ethical standards in the field of psychology? Do you feel that one type of standard is more important than the other? Why or why not?
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This solution discusses laws and codes of ethics in psychology, and how both are important for different reasons. This solution is 338 words.
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1. What is the difference between legal and ethical standards in the field of psychology? Do you feel that one type of standard is more important than the other? Why or why not?
Legal standards are about following the preset laws. Ethics is doing the morally and socially right thing. Some laws may not have any ethical connotations i.e. slavery laws, and ethics often goes beyond the legal laws to do the right thing. "What is ethical and what is legal are not equivalent. We need go no further than our own century to think of countries which passed laws that ...
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