Explain the case study of Little Albert.

Explain the case study of Little Albert.



Watson and Rayner (1920) created a phobia in 9 month old Albert. He showed no anxiety at the start. When he was showed a white rat, he tried to play with it. However, the experimenters tried to give him a phobia: whenever the white rat was present, they'd make a frightening noise by banging an iron bar close to his ear. The conditioning generalised to similar objects like a non-white rabbit, a fur coat, and Watson dressed as Santa. Albert was distressed at all of these.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Discuss the seven characteristics of useful information.

Why have accounting software packages been designed with separate transaction modules?

A laboratory assistant prepared solution of 0.8 M, 0.6 M, 0.4 M, and 0.2 M sucrose, but forgot to label them. After realizing the error, the assistant randomly labeled the flasks containing these four unknown solutions as flask A, flask B, flask C, and flask D.