watson and ryner 1920 Flashcards
watson said
‘such fears are learned through conditioning’
little albert (albert B)
9 months
from birth in hospital
soilid
unemotional
the base line tests were given through a number of stimulus these include
masks
newspaper
animals-dog, rabbit rat
ASR(acoustic startle responce) was produced through
watson hitting metal bar
(loud)
origionally
neutral stimulus (rat)–>
neutral responce (albert)
then
uncnditioned stimulus (loud noise)–>
unconditioned responce (crying)
then
unconditioned stuimulus (loud noise)+ conditioned stimulus (rat)–>
conditioned responce (crying)
they are all fluffy
how did he act with the other animals
fear was generalised (he was crying )
what did watson and ryner never do
uncondition little alberst so he could have still fered from the rest of his life
why was he given wooden blocks
to quite him and test general emotional state
why was he prevented from thumb sucking
becase it was a compensatory device for blocking fear
there could only be 1 fear
what were the conclutions of the experiemnt
was sucessful to condition a fear responce into a child
demonstrates ‘emotional transfer’
phobias only occur for people who are ‘constitutionally inferior’
whats freuds opinion on this
sex shapes personalitys
shows fear was important and exists in its own right
