In the famous Little Albert experiment, a nearly 9-month-old baby is shown a white rat. The rat crawls up to the baby, on him, and around him. The baby seems interested in the rat and unafraid.

The “Little Albert” experiment, performed in 1919 by John Watson of Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, was the first to show that a human could be classically conditioned.

The "Little Albert" Experiment Would Not Be Approved Today, And For Good Reason Back in the 1910s a young baby had a very confusing and frightening time, courtesy of psychologists.

Little Albert was the baby at the heart of one of psychology’s most controversial experiments – now considered “medical misogyny.” For decades nobody knew the identity of the infant, who ...

The Little Albert Experiment At Johns Hopkins University in 1920, John B. Watson conducted a study of classical conditioning, a phenomenon that pairs a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned ...

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Humans are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. These inbuilt responses serve as ...

The Little Albert Experiment In 1920, psychologist John. B. Watson and graduate student (and future wife) Rosalie Rayner wanted to see if they could produce a response in humans using classical ...

However the Little Albert experiment would never be allowed under modern-day law and regulations, as it clearly subjected the infant to severe stress and it’s likely that the infant’s fear of ...