CC

• What research supports classical conditioning?

  John Watson and Rosalie Rayner
• what was the aim of the little albert experiment?

  provide empirical evidence that human emotional responses could be learned through classical conditionig
• what was the procedure of the lil albert experiment?

  • Laboratory experiment
  • Participant = 11 month baby
  • Pp presented with various stimuli eg cotton wool, white rat and he did not cry
  • A fear reaction was then induced into albert by striking a steel bar with a hammer, making him cry
  • steel bar and stimuli were together
• what type of experiment?

  laboratory
• who was the pp?

  11 month old bany
• what were the findings?

  when shown the rat, albert would cry, roll over and crawl away. scared of rat and similar eg white fur coat
• what were the conclusions of the lil albert experiment?

  • Conditioned emotional responses, including love, fear and phobias are acquired as a direct result of environmental experiences, which can transfer and persist, possibly indefinitely, unless removed by counter-conditioning