animal research Flashcards
what are the two ethical guidelines to protect animals in psychology
scientific procedures act
animal welfare act
what are the three elements to be considered when using animals in research
care over caging
avoid discomfort and distress
suitabely qualified researchers
what three elements must be considered to avoid discomfort or distress
placing similar non-competative animals together
reducing number of animals used
refining procedures to minimise suffering
what is a strength of animal research laws
protects animals
laws such as care over caging means that the animals should be in an appropreate size cage and the avoid of discomfort or distress means that no harm comes to these animals and that they are fed adequalty.
t/f these ethical guidelines are valid as they protect the animals and their welfare
what is a weakness of the animal guidline laws
gueidelines can hinder research
for example care over caging and appropriate conditions may take time and money drawing resources away from the conduction of research
t/f these animal guidelines are not usefull as the impact research initially
what is a strength of aminimal research laws
it adherars to societys ethical and moral standerds and guidelines
providing the animals with good food and enviroment means that the animals don’t suffer
t/f ensuring animals are protected as they can be
what is a weakness of animal research guidelines
can be difficult to have a home office liscence
it can be difficult and time consuming to acquire a home office liscence wich all researchers must have to carry out a study involving animals
t/f time consuming and costly
what does the ethical guideline : researcher must be qualified mean
researcher wishing to condcut study using animals must have a liscence from the home office and be cleared to jsutify the cost of animals and importance in their research
what is general strength to using animals in research
removes the need for humans and so can be more ethical as it removes the need to test theories on humans but is still able to futher psychological learning
t/f it is ethically jsutifiable to use animals to advance psycological knowladge
what is general weakness to using animals in research
anthropermorphic
the findings when using animals in a study are not representative to humans and so cannot be easily generaliable to human behaviour
t/f decrasing its validity and generaliability of the findiengs
