A PSY 380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Little Albert Experiment
31 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Pavlonian conditioning has been demonstrated in various animals, including humans. Many different responses can become conditioned responses, and most environment stimuli can become conditioned stimuli. Watson: believed that abnormal, as well as normal, behavior is learned. He used unpleasant stimuli, for example shocks, to study the conditioning process. One of his experiments included little albert playing with a rat. Watson would strike a suspended bar with a hammer, and the loud sound would disturb the child, causing him to develop a conditioned fear of the rat. Note that watson suggested that little albert"s fear could also generalize the fear onto other white animals and objects, because the rat was white. Counterconditioning: the elimination of fear by the acquisition of a fear-inhibiting response occurs through the conditioning of an opponent or agnonistic response, a process called counterconditioning. Regarding ethics, research must never violate principles of ethical conduct.
