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Killing And Feeling Bad: Animal Experimentation And Moral Stress, Mike R. King
Killing And Feeling Bad: Animal Experimentation And Moral Stress, Mike R. King
Animal Studies Journal
This paper is prompted by the introspective account of animal experimentation provided by Marks in his paper ‘Killing Schrödinger’s Feral Cat’ in this journal. I offer an ethical interpretation of Marks' paper, and add personal reflections based on my own experiences of being involved in animal experimentation. Identifying the emotional and cognitive experiences of Marks and myself with Rollin’s concept of ‘moral stress’ I explore this effect that conducting animal experimentation can have on the people involved. I argue, based partly on personal anecdotal experience, that this stress varies depending on the organisational structure of animal experimentation, and one’s position …
Mapping Human V4: Correcting Artefact Reveals Hemifield Organisation, Harriet Taylor, Alexander M. Puckett, Zoey Jeanne Isherwood, Mark M. Schira
Mapping Human V4: Correcting Artefact Reveals Hemifield Organisation, Harriet Taylor, Alexander M. Puckett, Zoey Jeanne Isherwood, Mark M. Schira
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Paper presented at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference 2015, 8-11 April 2015, Sydney, Australia.
School Geometry: Focus On Knowledge Organisation, Mohan Chinnappan, Michaell Lawson
School Geometry: Focus On Knowledge Organisation, Mohan Chinnappan, Michaell Lawson
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Given that geometry is an area of mathematics that has a firm and obvious basis in the real environment, senior secondary students have surprising difficulties in geometric problem-solving. One distinct difficulty appears to be in activating the particular concepts among those previously acquired that are applicable to the problem at hand. A model is presented for analysis of student understanding, based on five levels of geometric knowledge.