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    adapt to changing environments (Skinner, 1938). Learning theories evolved to separate into two perspectives. First, the behaviourist perspective argues that learning be studied by observation and manipulation of stimulus-response associations. John Watson, who argued that psychology should be the study of observable phenomena, not the study of consciousness, or the mind, first articulated behaviourist perspective in 1913.…

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    1. Identify the study (video) you selected. Little Albert 2. Describe what this study demonstrated about human behavior and mental processes using the results of the study along with information you have learned in Units 1-3. John B. Watson an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. In this study with a graduate student named Rosalie Rayner, he conducted a classical conditioning study “Little Albert”. Exposing him to furry objects, various animals…

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    Watson, another psychologist, carried out another classical conditioning experiment. He titled it the ‘Little Albert experiment’. This experiment can be used to explain the creation of phobias within people using classical conditioning. Little Albert was a young child who was introduced to a rat. He showed no fear of the rat so, Watson struck a steel bar with a hammer to create a loud noise and it caused Little Albert…

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    project was directed to explain how these behaviors are interacted with the environment to influence behavior and development. One behavior modification study that has been controversial is, Watson’s Little Albert, which was done by behaviorist John B. Watson and Rosalie Raynor. The Little Albert experiment was a case study that showed empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans. The type of learning that was demonstrated in this study was hypothesizing fearful response in children…

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    have been done in accordance to Pavlov’s. One that was listed in the article was about John B. Watson conditioning an eleven month old baby nicknamed Little Albert. In the experiment Watson puts a white rat in front of Albert and makes a loud noise making the baby cry. After doing this a number of times, instead of playing with the rat like he used to, the rat because a source of fear for Albert. Also, Watson put other stimuli close to Little Albert and it carried the same effect, making it…

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    Were we just born with the instinctual ability to feel these emotions, or did we learn to feel certain emotions towards certain things or situations? Amongst the many psychologists that set out to find the cause for emotions, a psychologist named John B. Watson immediately stands out. Not only was he able to discover the mystery behind emotions, but, in doing so, he was also able to literally change the direction that psychology was heading at the time. In the reading, “Little Emotional Albert,”…

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    place in history. Behaviorism took over the world in the 1900’s, more specifically the world of psychology, and the man who led this take over was John Watson. Watson is the official founder of behaviorism because he fought to establish not only himself but also his new form of psychology (Schultz & Schultz, 2011). Many people were fascinated with Watson and his ideas,…

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    Erinn Payne Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning Classical conditioning refers to a kind of learning in which a stimulus obtains the ability to evoke a response which was initially evoked by a different stimulus (Weiten, 2010, p. 225). Classical conditioning is a learning theory developed by Ivan Pavlov (Olson & Hergenhahn, 2009, p.30), a Russian physiologist, in about 1900 (Weiten, 2010, p. 225) when he made an accidental discovery upon noticing that dogs salivate at the sight of food during his…

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    John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson researched on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. He also, conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. Watson became popular for the use of the…

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    objective measure, social learning, and reductionism (the notion that human behavior can be explained by breaking it down into smaller elements), (Khan, 2013; McLeod, 2013). Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, Edward Thorndike, and B.F. Skinner figure among some of the key theorist of this approach, (McLeod, 2013; Ormrod, 2012; Watson, 1999). Two of the most well-know theories of behaviorism are classical (or respondent) conditioning and operant conditioning (also…

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