Watson and Rayner

Question 1

Methodology

Answer 1

1) Controlled observation
2) 1 participant named Little Albert, who was chosen for his strong physical health and emotional stability
3) He was aged 9 months
4) “He was on the whole stolid and unemotional”

Question 2

Procedures (Emotional tests)

Answer 2

1) 9 months
2) Tested Albert’s emotional responses to certain objects & animals (he was confronted with; a white rat, a dog, cotton, burning newspaper etc.
3) A steel bar was struck in order to test Albert’s reaction to a loud sound

Question 3

Procedures (Emotional tests)

Answer 3

1) Tested Albert’s emotional responses to certain objects & animals (he was confronted with; a white rat, a dog, cotton, burning newspaper etc.
2) A steel bar was struck in order to test Albert’s reaction to a loud sound

Question 4

Procedures (Emotional tests)

Answer 4

1) Tested Albert’s emotional responses to certain objects & animals (he was confronted with; a white rat, a dog, cotton, burning newspaper etc.
2) A steel bar was struck in order to test Albert’s reaction to a loud sound

Question 5

Procedures (Session 1)

Answer 5

1) 11 months 3 days
2) Establishing a conditioned emotional response
3) Brought to the lab again
4) Presented with white rat and as soon as he reached for it, the steel bar was struck

Question 6

Procedures (Session 2)

Answer 6

1) 11 months 10 days
2) Testing the conditioned emotional response
3) Shown white rat with no loud sound to test if previous experience had affected behaviour
4) Exposed 5 times to the ‘joint stimulation’

Question 7

Procedures (Session 3)

Answer 7

1) 11 months 15 days
2) Generilisation
3) Had Albert’s link between rat and noise been generilised to other objects? i.e. behaviour
4) Presented variously with the rat, wooden blocks, a rabbit, a dog etc.

Question 8

Procedures (Session 4)

Answer 8

1) 11 months 20 days
2) Changing the environment
3) Albert’s conditioned emotional response was ‘freshened’ up using some joint stimulation
4) He was taken to a new environment; a well-lit lecture room with 4 people present

Question 9

Procedures (Session 5)

Answer 9

1) 1 year 21 days
2) The effect of time
3) The final test included a Santa Clause mask, a fur coat, a rat, a rabbit, a dog and blocks
4) Albert was then removed from the experiment before Watson & Rayner could remove the conditioned emotional responses