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14 lis 2023 · The Little Albert experiment was a controversial psychology experiment by John B. Watson and his graduate student, Rosalie Rayner, at Johns Hopkins University. The experiment was performed in 1920 and was a case study aimed at testing the principles of classical conditioning.
22 wrz 2024 · The Little Albert experiment, conducted in 1920 by John B. Watson and his graduate student Rosalie Rayner, was a landmark study that sought to demonstrate how classical conditioning could be applied to human emotions and behavior.
The Little Albert Experiment was a study conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner in 1920, where they conditioned a 9-month-old infant named "Albert" to fear a white rat by pairing it with a loud noise. Albert later showed fear responses to the rat and other similar stimuli.
For example, Watson hid behind a curtain when striking the iron bar so that Albert would associate the noise with the rat, not with him or the bar or the hammer. He also tested Albert’s reactions before the conditioning, to make sure Albert didn’t have any pre-existing fear of white, furry things.
11 lip 2024 · The Little Albert experiment is a great example of how classical conditioning can be used to condition an emotional response. Here's how the process works: Neutral Stimulus : A stimulus that does not initially elicit a response (the white rat).
Watson & Rayner discovered that ‘Little Albert’, in common with most small children, displayed a fear response when he heard a loud noise. They made a loud noise by hitting a steel bar with a hammer behind him. This loud noise was the UCS in the experiment and fear was the UCR.
1 paź 2009 · Abstract. In 1920, John Watson and Rosalie Rayner claimed to have conditioned a baby boy, Albert, to fear a laboratory rat. In subsequent tests, they reported that the child's fear generalized to...
