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Little Emotional Albert

Little Emotional Albert. By: Monica Long-Davis and DeAndra Rogers-Austin. Background. Psychologist: J.B. Watson and R. Rayner Hypothesis: Albert will eventually become conditioned to be afraid of the rat Study method: Experiment. Subjects and Experiment. Albert B.: 9 months and an orphan

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Little Emotional Albert

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  1. Little Emotional Albert By: Monica Long-Davis and DeAndra Rogers-Austin

  2. Background • Psychologist: J.B. Watson and R. Rayner • Hypothesis: Albert will eventually become conditioned to be afraid of the rat • Study method: Experiment

  3. Subjects and Experiment • Albert B.: 9 months and an orphan • Procedure: to see if he would be afraid of certain stimuli • UCS: Bell • UCR: Fear • NS: White rat • CS: Rat • CR: Fear

  4. Experiment: 11 months • Showed white rat and heard loud noise • Interested in rat but heard loud noise and got startled • A week later: Presented w/ rat w/o noise • Tested again: still afraid • Test of (generalization) w/ white rabbit

  5. Convinced great portion of psychology community • Watson’s findings could explain human behavior in straightforward and simple terms • Compared to notions of Freud and followers

  6. Results/Findings and Criticism • Study helped launch one of major schools of thought in psych • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI

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