REASONS FOR NOT CONDUCTING NON- HUMAN RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY-
PAIN AND DISTRESS- inflicting any suffering of another creatureis morally objectionable. In many cases the suffering of animals has not been justified by the knowledge gained from the studies.
EXAMPLES- Jauvet- experiment to do with sleep deprivation using cats on a small island surrounded by water. This research could have been seen as redundant as there is already research into sleep deprivation with humans. Sneddon et al- injected rainbow trout with bee venom who started to rock side to side, their breathing rate went up and they rubbied their lips on the tank. However, it cannot be said that fish do feel pain from the poisonous stimulus.
HUMANS ARE DIFFERENT TO ANIMALS- such as differences in many things such as: human consiousness, brain structure etc. HOWEVER Gray counteracts this with his research into anti-anxiety drugs with rats where he found similar results to those when experimenting with humans suggesting there may be a possible generalisation.
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