The psychological studies that John Watson and Rosalie Rayner conducted a classical condition study on a 9-month old baby that he called Albert B. the infant boy started in the experiment loving animals, and a white rat. Watson startled the rat with a loud sound of a hammer hitting the metal, Albert begins to develop a phobia a fear of white rats as well as most animals and furry objects. Many people have logical fears of animals, even myself is scared of every little creature that crawls, walk or run. Those of whom suffer from a phobia like seeing a person standing on a chair screaming “A SPIDER”! Even going to the doctors to get your shots extend to your health suffer.
In 1920, Watson and Rayner’s experiment on little Albert is demonstrating …show more content…
Therefore, Little Albert got psychological trauma. Clearly, Alberts behavior and reactions were reasonable to the sudden loud noises, which would scare any adults as well. During the experiments the responses “jumped and fell over burying his face in the mattress”, “Fell over with head turned away from the rat”, “began to cry”. According to the psychology textbook many others tried to answer questions about the study like, can an infant that was conditioned to fear with animals that appeared to be loud fearing noise? Some textbooks describe there are no effects. Research are supposed to conduct a cost-benefit analysis only to proceed if the benefits outweigh the harmed caused like the cost or risk is high or low. It’s possible that little Albert was vulnerable to the psychological harm, he was a subject to anxiety and distressed to the experiment. Justifying the study, potential harmed for any animal exists, the scientific purpose of the research is significant as to outweigh any harm to animal uses.so, being outweighed harms the nine-month old infant probably did produce permanent or long term fears, the short term fear was not human especially for the nine-month old …show more content…
In general, I think babies wouldn’t cry if any loud sound would have startled them and make them so afraid. It showed unconditional stimuli which are the rat, conditioned response which is crying and normally a child has instincts to reach for what they see, but that instincts immediately changed when Albert sees the rat he begins to cry.it also showed that fear can be generalized like the fear of a scary looking person. Scaring an infant is senseless, the experiment should be
In 1920, Watson and Rayner’s experiment on little Albert is demonstrating …show more content…
Therefore, Little Albert got psychological trauma. Clearly, Alberts behavior and reactions were reasonable to the sudden loud noises, which would scare any adults as well. During the experiments the responses “jumped and fell over burying his face in the mattress”, “Fell over with head turned away from the rat”, “began to cry”. According to the psychology textbook many others tried to answer questions about the study like, can an infant that was conditioned to fear with animals that appeared to be loud fearing noise? Some textbooks describe there are no effects. Research are supposed to conduct a cost-benefit analysis only to proceed if the benefits outweigh the harmed caused like the cost or risk is high or low. It’s possible that little Albert was vulnerable to the psychological harm, he was a subject to anxiety and distressed to the experiment. Justifying the study, potential harmed for any animal exists, the scientific purpose of the research is significant as to outweigh any harm to animal uses.so, being outweighed harms the nine-month old infant probably did produce permanent or long term fears, the short term fear was not human especially for the nine-month old …show more content…
In general, I think babies wouldn’t cry if any loud sound would have startled them and make them so afraid. It showed unconditional stimuli which are the rat, conditioned response which is crying and normally a child has instincts to reach for what they see, but that instincts immediately changed when Albert sees the rat he begins to cry.it also showed that fear can be generalized like the fear of a scary looking person. Scaring an infant is senseless, the experiment should be