Click below to access the website, which explains the goal of the APA's Committee on Animal Research and Ethics.
https://www.apa.org/science/leadership/care/index.aspx
Click below to access the website, examine the guidelines developed by the American Psychological Association's Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE).
https://www.apa.org/science/leadership/care/guidelines.aspx
Then, click below to read an alternative point of view from the animal rights perspective. Answer the following questions:
https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/
• What is your opinion about using animals for research?
• Was your opinion affected by the readings for this assignment?
• Under what circumstances, or for which types of research projects, would you advocate the use of animals in research?
• Do you think the use of advanced technology, such as fMRI, will eventually make animal testing obsolete?
• What safeguards do you think would be needed in order to protect participants in studies using neuroimaging methods?