M2D1: Psychological Research and Research Ethics

Answer both Part I and Part II in your discussion posting.Part I: Which of the following extreme positions do you think is closer to the truth? Choose ONE and support your choice.

I have picked this one (a):
(a) The primary goal of all psychological research should be to relate psychological phenomena to the anatomy of neural circuits. Identify an ethical reason for your choice, and support your writing with evidence and an example.Part II: You are taking a physiological psychology course, and your laboratory instructor gives you two rats: one rat with a lesion in an unknown brain structure and one normal rat. How would you test the rats to determine which one has the lesion and where? How would your approach differ from one that you might use to test a human patient suspected of having brain damage? Explain why your approach would be the same or different, and be sure to include the role that research ethics play in your decisions.