Deck 9: Medical Research on Animals

Question 1

According to Peter Singer, a medical experiment is NON-SPECIESIST if:

A) We use animals.
B) We use humans.
C) We use both animals and humans.
D) Where we use an adult baboon, we would use an anencephalic human baby.
E) We use no animals at all.

Answer 1

Where we use an adult baboon, we would use an anencephalic human baby.

Question 2

What was the final result of the investigation of Gennarelli's studies?

A) He was fined, but allowed to continue his research.
B) His research was stopped.
C) His research continued, but only with humans.
D) Nothing happened to him or his research, which continues today.
E) He received bad publicity, but his research continues.

Answer 2

His research was stopped.

Question 3

Which of the concepts below best supports the European Union idea to give apes in Europe some of the rights of humans?

A) Sentience.
B) The cognitive criterion.
C) Speciesism.
D) The gradient view of personhood.
E) The dominion of man over animals.

Answer 3

The gradient view of personhood.

Question 4

Philosopher Tom Regan argues that animals should morally count who:

A) Are sentient.
B) Have a life.
C) Can make a claim.
D) Have a face.
E) Can react to light.

Question 5

The latest result of the work of Edward Taub is that:

A) After revelations about his work, Congress required Animal Use and Care Committees to be established.
B) He established a reproducible model of head injury.
C) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animal targeted his lab and exposed his work.
D) Some damage from stroke in humans can be reversed by constraint-induced movement therapy.
E) After being hired at UAB, he was fired for abuse of animals.

Question 6

Christian writer C. S. Lewis believes about animal pain that:

A) Animals feel pain like humans.
B) Animals do not feel pain.
C) Animals experience pain, but lack the selves to integrate and remember it.
D) Animals only feel pain faintly, not like humans.
E) Animals feel pain more than humans.

Question 7

The Bad Science objection to the Official View is that:

A) Testing drugs on animals does not screen out enough bad things to be a good predictor of the drug's effects on humans.
B) Testing drugs on animals screens out too many good things to be a good predictor of the drug's effects on humans.
C) Animals are too unlike humans in evolution to be good predictors.
D) Animal testing assumes the truth of evolution, which is a controversial theory.
E) Both (A) and (B).

Question 8

Rene Descartes, the 17^th century scientist, mathematician, and philosopher, believed that animals were:

A) Co-equal in moral value with humans.
B) Created by God and that they have souls.
C) Beast machines incapable of feeling.
D) Higher in moral status than humans.
E) Capable of feeling, but not remembering, pain.

Question 9

SENTIENCE refers to:

A) Soul
B) Memory
C) The ability to experience pain or pleasure.
D) Consciousness
E) Conscience

Question 10

An LD-50 test measures:

A) How many animals feel pain from a drug.
B) How much of a drug is needed to kill 10 of 100 animals.
C) How much of a drug is needed to kill 50 of 100 animals.
D) How much of a drug is necessary to kill animals who have lived 50 days.
E) How much of a drug is necessary to kill animals who have Long Duration.