PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Observational Learning, Conditioned Taste Aversion, Latent Inhibition
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The ongoing mystery and controversy of little albert . Known for being a contribution to understanding of associative learning and fear conditioning. Show the baby animals and he has no reaction to the items (no fear) Then they show him a white rat and they bang a steel drum which makes a loud noise and scares the baby every time they do. Then they show him the rat without the sound and he becomes afraid of the white rat. Fear generalized to other white small objects (ex. Shortly after the study was done watson was having an affair with him graduate assistant and had to leave the university and never went through de-conditioning process with albert as planned. In the 2000s they narrowed down who albert"s mother was and discovered the issue that he might not have been a healthy normally developing child.
