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  1. Animal Research in Psychology

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  2. Psychology Research: Psychological Research On Animals

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  3. (PDF) Animal Research in Psychology: More Than Meets the Eye of the

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  4. Psychology Research: Psychological Research On Animals

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  5. What is an Animal Psychologist?

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  6. The Pros and Cons of Animal Research in Psychology

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  1. IB Psychology: Animal research (HL only)

  2. The Monkey Experiments That Broke Our Hearts: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

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  4. The Ethics of Animal Use in Scientific Research

  5. Introduction to Critical Animal Studies

  6. Narcissism and Empathy

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  1. Opinion: Why research using animals is important in psychology

    The use of animal models in psychology research that is not of a neurobiological nature is quite rare in UK laboratories. This may lead many psychologists to consider the use of animals in scientific research as irrelevant to them. ... Beyond social psychology, animal studies have been of great importance in the increased understanding and ...

  2. Animal research

    Animal research: a brief overview (PPT, 3.3MB) Animal research has provided numerous medical advancements and improvements in human and animal health. This slide deck, developed by members of the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE), provides a brief overview of animal research in the United ...

  3. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition

    The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition ® publishes experimental and theoretical studies concerning all aspects of animal behavior processes. Studies of associative, nonassociative, cognitive, perceptual, and motivational processes are welcome. The journal emphasizes empirical reports but may include specialized reviews appropriate to the journal's content area.

  4. Animal studies in psychology

    The study of nonhuman animals has actually played a huge role in psychology, and it continues to do so today. If you've taken an introductory psychology class, then you have probably read about seminal psychological research that was done with animals: Skinner's rats, Pavlov's dogs, Harlow's monkeys. Unfortunately, many introductory ...

  5. Insights on How Animal and Human Psychology Relate

    Comparative psychology research shows that animals rely on behaviors that are most likely to help them deal with the environments around them. When researchers look at the "context" in which ...

  6. Old and New Approaches to Animal Cognition: There Is Not "One Cognition"

    Comparative Psychology: Investigation of similarities and differences in multiple animal species—including humans—using techniques that encompass everything from observational studies in nature to neurophysiological research in the laboratory (Call et al. 2017; Tomasello and Herrmann 2010).. Cognition: Adaptive information processing in the broadest sense, from gathering information ...

  7. Animal Cognition and Behaviour

    Research on animal cognition seeks to answer these questions to gain a better understanding of animal minds. This Collection welcomes submissions from the fields of comparative psychology and ...

  8. Human-animal studies in psychology: The history and challenges of

    This article presents an overview of the definition and scope of what has come to be known as human-animal studies, a transdisciplinary field. The historical role and many contributions of psychology to it are examined, as is research from many related areas involved in this area of study. In addition, the emergence of clinically based research and practice involving animals, such as Animal ...

  9. How STRANGE are your study animals?

    A new framework for animal-behaviour research will help to avoid sampling bias — ten years on from the call to widen the pool of human participants in psychology studies beyond the WEIRD.

  10. The hidden side of animal cognition research: Scientists' attitudes

    The study protocol was approved by the University of Cambridge's Psychology Research Ethics Committee (PRE.2020.096). The survey was designed by BGF, with feedback from NSC and LO, and then piloted on several volunteers from the Comparative Cognition Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. ... Combining participants' quantitative and ...

  11. Psychosocial and Psychophysiological Effects of Human-Animal

    Oxytocin and HAI effects largely overlap, as documented by research in both, humans and animals, and first studies found that HAI affects the oxytocin system. As a common underlying mechanism, the activation of the oxytocin system does not only provide an explanation, but also allows an integrative view of the different effects of HAI.

  12. (PDF) Animal Research in Psychology

    A study of 8 leading introductory psychology textbooks indicated that with the exception of principles of conditioning and learning, the contributions of animal research to psychology were often ...

  13. Animal Behavior

    The study of animal behavior is a cornerstone of psychology for several reasons. ... (the study of animal behavior) and psychology. ... research aimed at proving whether the "Pet Effect" is ...

  14. How animal minds can help reveal the human mind

    Studying animal cognition helps researchers to comprehend the human mind. Psychologists and cognitive scientists seek to understand human capacities such as abstraction, memory and cooperation ...

  15. Animal behavior research is getting better at keeping observer bias

    A new study confirms that, over the past decade, studies increasingly adhere to the rigorous best practices that can minimize potential biases in animal behavior research.

  16. Animal Studies of Attachment: Lorenz and Harlow

    Lorenz. Ethical guidelines. In the 1950s research which used animal subjects to investigate early life experiences and the ability for organisms to form attachments contributed significantly to the field of developmental psychology. Two of the most well-known animal studies were conducted by Konrad Lorenz and Harry Harlow.

  17. The Pros and Cons of Animal Research in Psychology

    Psychological Research on Animals. The goal of psychological research is to understand human behavior and how the mind works. This involves studying non-human animals via direct observation and experimentation. Some of the experimental procedures involve electric shocks, drug injections, food deprivation, maternal separation or the manipulation ...

  18. Comparative Psychology Explained

    June 14, 2023. Reviewed by. Olivia Guy-Evans, MSc. Comparative psychology is the study of animals in order to find out about humans. The underlying assumption is that to some degree the laws of behavior are the same for all species and that therefore knowledge gained by studying rats, dogs, cats and other animals can be generalized to humans.

  19. Animal Research

    The film's first theme, that animal research is useless, is obviously false. Much of what we know about basic physiology of the heart, the lungs, the digestive system, infection and many others ...

  20. PDF The importance of research with nonhuman animals

    In the United States, laboratory research with nonhuman animals is strongly regulated by the federal government to ensure it is scientifically valid and that animals are treated humanely. Of course, it is also the ethical obligation of researchers and their institutions to appropriately care for animals. According to Sara Jo Nixon, PhD, chair ...

  21. Guidelines for psychologists working with animals

    The most obvious use is in research, including studies where animals are the primary subjects, for example there has been some growth in studies of the cognitive capacities of different species (e.g. dogs and horses). ... The majority of animal use in psychology is in research, and, if involving scientific procedures that may cause pain ...

  22. Animal Studies AO1 AO2 AO3

    Animal studies are more properly known as "research involving non-human participants" and they play an important role in Psychology: from Pavlov's dogs and Skinner's rats to more recent studies involving the language abilities of apes, animals feature heavily in all the main approaches, but especially the Learning Approach. A research method where animals are observed in their natural ...

  23. Animal behavior research better at keeping observer bias from sneaking

    A new study confirms that, over the past decade, studies increasingly adhere to the rigorous best practices that can minimize potential biases in animal behavior research.

  24. Coding for Animals Key to Engaging Children in STEM

    An education pilot study bridges animal behavior research and computer coding to engage elementary school students in real-world, interdisciplinary science Teachers today are facing a bit of a conundrum. Their goal is to prepare their young students to enter a rapidly changing world. Even basic jobs ...

  25. Chimps learn and improve tool-using skills even as adults, study finds

    The authors note that further study will be needed to understand the details of the chimps' learning process, such as the role of reasoning and memory or the relative importance of experience ...

  26. Updates on H5N1 Beef Safety Studies

    Ongoing Research. To verify the safety of the meat supply in the context of H5N1, USDA's FSIS, APHIS, and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are working on three separate beef safety studies related to avian influenza in meat from dairy cattle. These studies are taking place in the interest of scientific inquiry and reaffirm consumer confidence.

  27. The Emergence and Development of Animal Research Ethics: A Review with

    The Emergence of Animal Research Ethics. In his contribution to The Routledge Companion to Bioethics, Tom L. Beauchamp (2014, p. 262) calls animal research ethics "a recently coined term".It is, indeed, only in the last decade, that animal research has been discussed extensively within the framework of philosophical research ethics, but the term "animal research ethics" goes back at ...

  28. 2024 AP Exam Dates

    2024 AP Exam Dates. The 2024 AP Exams will be administered in schools over two weeks in May: May 6-10 and May 13-17. AP coordinators are responsible for notifying students when and where to report for the exams. Early testing or testing at times other than those published by College Board is not permitted under any circumstances.

  29. Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals

    Topics in Psychology. Explore how scientific research by psychologists can inform our professional lives, family and community relationships, emotional wellness, and more. ... but nonhuman animals are used as part of the study, such as research on the efficacy of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) and research conducted in zoos, animal ...

  30. Study shows heightened sensitivity to PTSD in autism

    "Study shows heightened sensitivity to PTSD in autism." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 May 2024. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 05 / 240509110825.htm>.