Procedures

• Procedures 1


  Emotional tests:

  • Responses recorded with a motion picture camera
  • To test Alberts responses - confronted with a white rat, dog, monkey, masks with + without hair, cotton wool, burning newspapers etc
  • Then tested with a loud sound - made by striking a hammer upon a steel bar
  • Bar = 1m in length + 2cm diameter
• Procedures 2 - Sessions

  • S1 - Establishing a conditioned emotional response
  • S2 - Testing the conditioned emotional response
  • S3 -Generalisation
  • S4 - Changing the environment
  • S5 - The effect of time
• S1 - Establishing a conditioned emotional response

  • 11 months + 3 days
  • Brought him to the lab
  • White rat was presented + Albert tried to reach for it
  • The bar was struck behind his head at the same time
• S2 - Testing the conditioned emotional response

  • 11 months + 10 days
  • A week later he was shown the rat with no sound to see if his previous experience effected his behaviour
  • Albert was also exposed 5 times to the joint stimulation
• S3 - Generalisation

  • 11 months + 15 days
  • Albert returned for further testing
  • The research Q was whether the link would be generalised to other objects
  • He was presented with rat, wooden blocks, a rabbit, dog, seal fur coat, cotton wool + Watson's hair
• S4 - Changing the environment

  • 11 months + 20 days
  • Alberts conditioned emotional response was freshened up using 'joint stimulation'
  • He was taken to a new environment (large, well-lit lecture room with 4 people present)
  • He was placed on a table in the centre of the room
• S5 - The effect of time

  • 12 months + 21 days
  • Albert was tested one last time
  • No emotional tests had been conducted
  • The final test involved a Santa Claus mask, a fur coat, rat, rabbit, dog + the blocks