Research Fair

At the research fair I talked to Rachel Busselman about her psychology research. The research was on rats and their self-administration of d-amphetamine based on different factors. These factors included having half the rats isolated and the other half enriched, meaning they received human contact, were in one large cage, and had toys. The results between these two groups of rats showed that the isolated rats were more likely to self-administer the d-amphetamine compared to the enriched rats. To prevent random error. The researchers put the lever for the d-amphetamine on a timer to make sure they were not randomly pressing the lever. This was just the first part of this research and they are planning on doing more in the future.