Procedures

• 5 stages

  1. Establishing conditioned emotional response
  2. testing emotional conditioned response
  3. Generalisation
  4. change in environment
  5. effect over time
• Emotional test 


  Watson and raynor tested little Albert’s response to 9 objects. A white rat, a white rabbit, a monkey, a dog, cotton wool, burning news paper and a mask with and without hair
• Test to a load sound in the emotional test 


  One experimenter got Albert’s attention and struck a metal bar that was a metre in length with a hammer behind Albert’s head to test his emotional response to the sound
• session 1 : 11 months and 3 days old 


  bought to the lab and when Albert went to reach for the rat the bar was struck behind Albert’s head, starting the classical conditioning process
• session 2 : 11 months and 10 days 


  a week later, Albert was bought back int the lab and was shown the white rat again with no sound to see if previous experiences effected his behaviour

  little Albert was then exposed to joint stimulation 5 more times after this
• session 3 : 11 months and 15 days 


  returned for further testing, but this times they tested his responses to other items, like. a fur coat, a control item which were wooden blocks, the rat, a rabbit, a dog, cotton wool and Watsons hair
• session 4 : 11 months and 20 days 


  emotional response was refreshed using joint stimulation. he was the taken into a new environment, a large well lit texture hall with 4 people, placed on a table in the middle of the room
• session 5:


  at 12 months and 21 days, Albert was tested for the last time, he had been to the lab in between, but no testing was done. Final test involved a Santa mask, a fur coat, the rat, a rabbit, the dog and the blocks.
• List of items

  1. White Rat
  2. monkey
  3. rabbit
  4. dog
  5. mask with and without hair
  6. cotton wool
  7. Burning newspaper
  8. metal bar with hammer
  9. Fur coat
  10. Santa mask
  11. wooden blocks
  12. Watsons hair