LITTLE EMOTIONAL ALBERT Amanda Wagner Alex Gabliani
Emotion is created by biological and instinctual processes WRONG! Behaviorism- Emotion is generated outside the person through situational stimulation We learn our emotional reactions
EXPERIMENT Prove that emotion can be experimentally conditioned “Not born to fear rats” Little Albert B
Neutral Stimuli: white rat, rabbit, monkey, dog, masks with no hair, while cotton wool Unconditioned stimulus: loud noise behind him
GENERALIZATION Rat + Noise = Scared Albert Rat = Runaway Baby Bunny = Crying Baby Generalization: learned fear is transferred to other objects
Significant Findings Human behavior stems from learning/conditioning Invalidating Freud (behavior stems from a series of unconscious processes) Ex: Sucking thumb
CRITICISM Ethical standards were different New, unexplored areas of research Extinction contradicts Watson’s assumption about indefinite conditioned fear
APPLICATION Facial expressions: Sullivan and Lewis 2003 Phobias = genetic component: Kendler, Karkowski and Prescott
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