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Spencer, C. D. – American Psychologist, 1978
Two frequently employed types of role playing, empirical and hypothetical, are defined and discussed with respect to the type of threat each poses to valid inference when used as substitutes for in vivo experimentation. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Experimental Psychology, Research, Role Playing
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Sullivan, David S.; Deiker, Thomas E. – American Psychologist, 1973
Findings of this survey indicate that important differences exist between experimenters and students on various issues of human research--psychologists expressing views much more ethically stringent than those by their most typical human subjects. (Authors)
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Moral Values, Perception, Psychological Studies
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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