controversies - non human animals pt 1
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- Created on: 21-03-21 12:40
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- non human animals pt 1
- BPS guidelines for psychologists working with animals
- Published guidelines for research with animals by BPS -
- conform to current legislation
- Heed 3 Rs- reduce, replace, refine
- Choose species suited to research purposes
- Be aware of animal’s previous experiences
- Remember responsibilities extend to care of animals when not being studied, including provision of companions for social animals
- Pay special attention to procedures that may cause pain, ensure such procedures are carefully evaluated and alternative considered
- Consider food intake , normal food intake and metabolic requirements are met
- Animals (scientific procedures) Act 1986 - requires research with non-human animals is only permitted by licensed researchers on licensed projects. Licences only granted by Home Office if -
- knowledge to be gained from investigation justifies harm or distress to animal participants
- Research cannot be done using non-animal methods
- Discomfort or suffering is kept to minimum by appropriate use of anaesthetics or painkillers
- Act only relates to vertebrate animals, and those more than halfway through their gestation period. One vertebrate species - octopus - added in 1993. Primates, cats, dogs and horses have additional protection
- Published guidelines for research with animals by BPS -
- Comparative psychology
- study of non-human animals , often with intention of making comparisons with humans
- Harlow 1959 - placed infant rhesus monkeys in a cage with two wire mothers, one with cloth and one with a feeding bottle. Monkeys chose to spend most time with cloth mother demonstrative importance of contact conform over feeding
- Monkeys developed into emotionally maladjusted adult despite their contact comfort - couldn’t socialise with other monkeys and rejected their own infants
- Research had important influence on understanding of infant emotional development, recognition that feeding alone was not the basis of the bond between caregiver and infant
- Should be acknowledged that some comparative research may be applied to benefit animal’s lives
- Harlow’s research can be used to help improve the lives of monkeys in captivity or for breeding programmes for species in danger of extinction
- pavlov's dogs
- Skinner's rate
- BPS guidelines for psychologists working with animals
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