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Re: Animal Testing
i notice the ducks I feed daily don't seem to respond as Pavlov or Skinner says they should.
Rosenthal made an interesting experiment with three groups of Grad. students who were testing the intelligence of rats.
In passing, Rosenthal just casually mentioned to each group either
'This is a smart group of rats'
'This is an average group of rats'
'This is dumb group of rats.'
In fact all rats had come from the same genetic/whatever group.
When all the stats. were all computed, and the results were in, guess what they said?
You guessed it; the simple suggestion Rosenthal had made to his students over a cup of tea was exactly how the experiments panned out..
Which of course brings up another problem in psychology the fact that a majority (? -an awful lot anyway) of research is done on University/college kids/students/young people
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