Learning Studies

Question 1

What is the classic study for Learning?

Answer 1

Watson and Rayner (Little Albert)

Question 2

What were the basics of Watson and Rayner?

Answer 2

They showed him a white rat (NS) and then hit an iron bar(UCS) and he cried (UCR). The rat was then a CS andante Alberts crying was a CR. He was then scared of anything white.

Question 3

3 facts of Watson and Rayner?

Answer 3

• Little Albert was 9 months old
• He lived in the hospital where the study was conducted
• He died age 6

Question 4

Negatives of Watson and Rayner?

Answer 4

• Ethically this study is very bad (causing distress to an infant)
• Only done with one child and therefore hard to generalise
• Cannot be replicated as it was very un-ethical

Question 5

What is the contemporary study for learning?

Answer 5

Becker (Fiji)

Question 6

What were the basics of Becker

Answer 6

She went to Fiji before television and asked 63 school girls to fill in her EAT-26 questionnaire, she then went back 2 years later after TV had been introduced and gave 65 school girls the same questionnaire. She found that girls had developed eating disorders over this period of time

Question 7

4 facts of Becker?

Answer 7

• no purging before, 11.3% after
• 77% said that TV affected their body image
• All 17 year olds
• TV introduced was Friends and a few others

Question 8

Negatives of Becker

Answer 8

• Hard to replicate

- Only used 63-65 ppts