During the Little Albert experiment Watson and his partner Rosalie Rayner wanted to create a fearful reaction. The participant was an 11-month-old baby whose name was Albert B. Albert was considered to be a happy and healthy baby. Albert was young enough to where he had not been exposed to the fear of the objects that were going to be used in the experiment. Watson wanted to create a fear response to a rat. Like most babies, a loud noise would startle Albert. Watson created a loud noise by using a hammer to hit a steel bar. Watson used this loud noise as the unconditioned stimulus, and created a conditional fear response to the rat. It did not take long before Albert showed signs of fear when he would see a rat (Chance, 2014, p.97). Rats
