Everyone makes ethical decisions every day of their lives. Individuals adhere to many different types of ethical standards, both professional and personal. Adhering to ethical principles as a clinician or psychologist is paramount. Some experiments done in the past were unethical and led to the creation of the ethical codes by the American Psychological Association in regards to keeping individuals safe and protected when participating in experiments or studies. One unethical experiment that took place
lever. At first this action may have been accidental, as the pigeons are trying to make a connection. As the trial and error progresses, they soon realise the relationship between the action and reward. He then also undertook this experiment with rats. Even though his experiment concept, method and conclusion are valid and effective, it imposes limitations as it wasn’t carried out on humans. He then went on to look into different types of partical reinforcement such as Fixed Interval, Variable Interval
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.” Albert Einstein said this to emphasize that all living things deserve to have basic rights and freedoms. Although the idea of testing on animals has been around for a long time, the modern controversy sparked in the late 1900’s with the Animal Welfare Act and the debate that followed it. Some may say that it is absurd to think that animals should have similar rights as humans, but opponents