Little Albert Study Of John Watson
Lots of people have heard of the Little Albert study performed by John Watson. The first I had heard of it was in my psychology class that I took in my junior year of high school. There, we learned what Watson supposedly did to the nine-month-old little boy named Albert. The short version of this study is that Watson conditioned Albert to fear certain objects, such as a Santa Clause mask, and animals, such as a white rat, with a loud banging sound produced by a steel bar, a sound that scared the little boy. John Watson was a behaviorist and wanted to study things that could be observed (unlike Freud). Now, it looks like I know a few things about this study, but I learned a couple things about Watson and little Albert from the podcast too. First