Little Albert
- Created by: rebeccahankinson
- Created on: 23-03-15 15:38
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- Little Albert, Watson and Rayner 1920
- AIM
- To explore how classical conditioning could be used to creat a phobia in humans using CC principles.
- METHOD
- Experiment
- PROCEDURE
- 11 Month old baby placid and emotionally stable.
- Banged a metal bar to startle and then linked noise to Albert to playing with pet rat
- NS= Whit rat
- UCS= Noise metal bar
- Albert associated the noise with the rat
- UCR= Anxiety
- CS=Rat
- CR= Anxiety
- RESULTS
- After a few trials Albert agitated on seeing rat, it became clear that it wasnt just rats that made him upset.
- His anxiety response had generalised to some other objects, white fury ones.
- After a few trials Albert agitated on seeing rat, it became clear that it wasnt just rats that made him upset.
- CONCLUSION
- Succeeded in conditioning in an infant fear of an animal, the child would not normally be afraid of
- The CR was still present after 31 days.
- EVALUATION
- + Supported Pavlovs findings. Good controlls, the study was carefully documented, strict controlls,Only one variable was changed at a time. Good reliability.
- - Ethical issues- Albert frightened. Alberts mother did not give full informed consent. The researcher deliberately exposed Albert to psychological harm caused distress. Hard to generalise to others
- AIM
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