LITTLE ALBERT EXPERIMENT

Little Albert Experiment

Little Albert Experiment

This essay presents answers to the questions related to a famous psychological study of classical conditioning. The study is called the Little Albert Study carried out by John Watson and his colleagues.

In 1920, John B. Watson and his assistant Rosalie Rayner provided the first empirical evidence that fears can be acquired through classical conditioning (Watson, Watson, 2002). Their subject, 11-month-old Albert, was allowed to play with a white rat (CS). While Albert was playing with the rat, a loud noise (US) occurred in the background. Albert became startled and cried when the ...