Watson and Raynor - behaviourist explanation
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- Created on: 17-04-15 17:23
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- Watson and Raynor (behaviourist explanation)
- to see if fear will be transferred to other, similar objects.
- case study on little Albert, 11 months old
- Albert had no fear of rats etc. but when he was 8 months he was startled by a steel bar hit by a hammer
- session 1 - steel bar struck when Albert was shown a white rat in the lab
- made albert jump and fall forward
- session 2 - rat alone presented and then with loud noise x3. then just the rat and then with loud noise twice again
- albert had then gained a fear of white rats but also it had been translated to other objects such as a monkey, rabbit, dog, mask with hair or cotton wool.
- behaviourist explanation is that phobias are learnt through conditioning
- classical conditioning could explain phobias e.g this study
- or operant by being rewarded for the fear etc.
- classical conditioning could explain phobias e.g this study
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