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Every college undergraduate learns in his or her first introductory course that the aims of scientific psychology are understanding, explaining, and predicting behavior. How students are taught about behavior varies depending on the area of psychology involved. But within some major psychology subfields—behavior analysis, learning, experimental, and physiological psychology—teaching students about behavior often means instruction and observation in animal behavior. In some cases, students are asked to study the principles of animal behavior for their own sake. More commonly, however, animals are used in teaching or laboratory settings because they are assumed to be models which serve as approximations for analogous behavior in humans.
Portions of this paper were presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, August, 1984 in Toronto.
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Kelly, J.A. (1986). Alternatives to Aversive Procedures with Animals in the Psychology Teaching Setting. In: Fox, M.W., Mickley, L.D. (eds) Advances in Animal Welfare Science 1985. Advances in Animal Welfare Science, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4247-9_9
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