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Darren Marks 28/10/03 Discussion of the Ethical Issues of the use of Animals in Psychological Research The ethical issues of animal testing begin with the inability to conduct the same tests on human participants. Animals technically have fewer rights yet similar biological, hormonal, reproductive, and even comparable brain structures due to evolution of the human from animals and therefore ability to 'scale up' results. Behaviourists are most likely to see animals as having excellent relevance to humans and will be able to justify their use in experimentation, while other approaches, such as Psychodynamic, will have no valid reasons to proceed with such a study. Researchers will find that experiments involving controlled breeding, deprivation studies, brain surgery, and trial testing of drugs are far more acceptable / possible on animals than humans. The convenience of animal experiments is apparent in the faster breeding cycles, animals do not try to interpret or...

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