1. LITTLE EMOTIONAL ALBERT Amanda Wagner Alex Gabliani

2. Emotion is created by biological and instinctual processes WRONG! Behaviorism- Emotion is generated outside the person through situational stimulation We learn our emotional reactions

3. EXPERIMENT Prove that emotion can be experimentally conditioned “Not born to fear rats” Little Albert B

4. Neutral Stimuli: white rat, rabbit, monkey, dog, masks with no hair, while cotton wool Unconditioned stimulus: loud noise behind him

5. GENERALIZATION Rat + Noise = Scared Albert Rat = Runaway Baby Bunny = Crying Baby Generalization: learned fear is transferred to other objects

6. Significant Findings Human behavior stems from learning/conditioning Invalidating Freud (behavior stems from a series of unconscious processes) Ex: Sucking thumb

7. CRITICISM Ethical standards were different New, unexplored areas of research Extinction contradicts Watson’s assumption about indefinite conditioned fear

8. APPLICATION Facial expressions: Sullivan and Lewis 2003 Phobias = genetic component: Kendler, Karkowski and Prescott

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBfnXACsOI 1:16-5:00