AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Psychologists study animals because
A
animal behavior is just as complex as human behavior.
B
experiments on people are generally considered to be unethical.
C
the ethical treatment of animals is not mandated by professional guidelines.
D
similar processes often underlie animal and human behavior.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Animals are good research subjects for a variety of reasons. They are biologically similar to humans and susceptible to many of the same health problems. Also, they have short life-cycles so they can easily be studied throughout their whole life-span or across several generations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: This is true. To conduct experiments, these workers often test on humans or, where ethics or cost or other considerations prohibit it, on other animals that are usually mammals sharing some cognitive processes with humans.

Detailed explanation-3: -The study of animal behavior is a cornerstone of psychology for several reasons. Ethology, or the study of animals in their natural habitats, sheds light on how animals interact with each other and their environments, and why they behave the way they do.

Detailed explanation-4: -Comparative psychology, a subdiscipline of psychology, is the scientific study of the behavior and cognition of human and non-human animals, with emphasis on how behavior relates to phylogeny, ontogeny, and adaptation.

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