The "Subject" of the Psychology practical exam

 The "Subject" of the Psychology practical exam

Reducing a person to a mere research object? Are research participants/interlocutors still called and treated as subjects?

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Hand-drawn sketches. On the left is a professor with students sitting in front. The professor is making an announcement: "Tomorrow is your psychology practical exam. Each one should bring a subject". Below that is written " the subject of the Psychology practical exam."
On the right is a girl with curly hair asking, "Hey! I have my Psych practicals tomorrow. Can you please be my subject for the experiment?" To which a boy on the right top corner responds, "Will you buy me lunch if I agree?" And a girl on the bottom right with a plait responds, " You mean the "object" of your experiment?" And " Wait! Am I a lab rat?". She wonders," At least you can call me a participant or an interlocutor?"

I drew this because I just heard a faculty asking their students to bring "subjects" for their exams, and I remembered that we were taught the same way, and the analysis was also very reductionist...it was only when I was in M.Phil and Ph.D that I realized the importance of language and also the relationality with our participants- they're not just use and throw objects after collecting data from them.

Image Description: A page from my M.Sc. Psych practical record book from 2013. The experiment is on Concept formation and has info on who the experimenter and the subject are, along with the problem hypothesis and design.