Evaluation of animal experiments

Question 1

1 strength in regard to experimental validity

Answer 1

Animals show no demand characteristics as they have no desire to please etc

Question 2

1 strength in regards to animal aging

Answer 2

Animals age much quicker so changes in the drug on maturity can be observed over a short period of time

Question 3

1 strength in terms of reliability

Answer 3

We can have good control over animals which makes it easier to draw cause and effect conclusions as we control all aspects of their life and do things to them that would be unethical to humans.

Question 4

1 example of something we can do to animals that would be unethical to humans?

Answer 4

deliberateley damage part of their brains

Question 5

1 Weakness to do with genralisability and credibility?

Answer 5

Hard to generalise finding to humans as we are very different from other species such as rats therefore credibility is often questioned

Question 6

1 example of how we are very different from other species?

Answer 6

we have a complex language unlike any other species

Question 7

1 weakness regarding to interpretation?

Answer 7

Animals cannot tell us how they feel or what is motivating them to bahvave in a certain way so this is all subject to interpretation which could be taken very differentely by different scientists

Question 8

1 Weakness regarding difficulty and cost?

Answer 8

very diffcult and costly as they have to comply with ethical guidelines making sure the animals have special housing and proper monerting of welfare