Watson showed Albert a small white mouse, which Albert liked. ... Instead he believed that the white rabbit would present the same loud noise the white rat did. If he were taught to discriminate between the two stimuli, then he would not fear the white rabbit, knowing the loud noise would not accompany it. ... Given Little Albert's experiment, if Watson were to present the white rat enough times without the loud noise, Albert's fear of the rat would go away and his reaction to the animal would be the same as it was before the unconditioned stimulus was introduced (amicable). ... Fo...

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Watson and Rayner (1920) also demonstrated this type of conditioning when they tried to condition "Little Albert" by pairing a loud noise to a white rat. "Little Albert" soon associated the loud noise with touching the rat and became afraid of the rat or anything that looks like a white rat. ...

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This study was about an infant who at plain site had no fear to fury white animals. He was afraid of loud banging noises this made him cry. When put together with the white fury animal for several trails little Albert was conditioned to automatically at plain site be afraid of white fury animals. ...

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