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Albert B was reared almost from birth in a hospital environment; his mother was a wet nurse in the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children. Albert's life was normal: he was healthy from birth and one of the best developed babies ever brought to the hospital, weighing twenty-one pounds at nine months of age. He was stable and unemotional. His stability was one of the principal reasons for using him as a subject in this test.

Albert was removed from the hospital before the experimenters could do any "detachment" or removal of conditioned emotional responses.

2006-07-26 08:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by psychgrad 7 · 1 0

I believe that "Little Albert" was the child of a patient; the reasone they picked him was that he was a robust child. Counterconditioning was never done becouse the mother withdrew the child from the study (against the wishes of waston)
Truly a sad example of a study gone wrong!!!

2006-07-23 00:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by Kalika 1 · 0 0

Little Albert. John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner carried one of the most influential psychology studies out in 1920. Psychologists and intro psychology students alike know the "Little Albert" study.

Because the effect of this type of study were not understood, they were allowed to conduct their experiments without any oversight.

In the world of today, this would not have been allowed. I have seen reports of other similar studies, plus the "experiments" with electric shock treatment which would never be used now.

2006-07-23 00:16:29 · answer #3 · answered by Yarnlady_needsyarn 7 · 0 0

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