Revealing animal experiments in general psychology texts: opening Pandora's box.

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  • P F Cunningham
چکیده

Domjan and Purdy' s (July 1995) article made explicit three facts that teachers of psychology may not know but have long suspected: (a) Authors of general psychology textbooks cite animal experiments without mentioning that animal subjects were used; (b) authors discuss important concepts (e.g., motivation research) without mentioning that the work was based on animal experiments; and (c) authors describe results of animal experiments as if the research had been done with humans (p. 499). Interestingly, being an animal experimenter does not prevent an author from making these attributional errors because at least two of the eight reviewed textbooks were authored by animal experimenters. Three of the remedies that Domjan and Purdy recommended are likely to give rise to important and challenging questions for teachers and students of general psychology.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The American psychologist

دوره 51 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1996