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Domjan, Michael; Purdy, Jesse E. – American Psychologist, 1995
Examines how the contributions of animal research are presented in eight of the most widely used introductory psychology textbooks. The authors show that, with the exception of principles of conditioning and learning, the contributions of animal research are often not explicitly acknowledged or are obscured to look like they had been obtained with…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology