The bell is the neutral stimulus. Now that the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, and neutral stimulus are all identified, it is time to pair the neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus. ... Then, later, the unconditioned stimulus can be withdrawn and the neutral stimulus evolves to become the conditioned stimulus. Now the conditioned stimulus or learned stimulus evokes a conditioned response, or learned response. ... 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...

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Behaviourists want results, by which they can check measure and observe on the stimulus and the reacted response. ... However the animals were not physically harmed. ... One of the differences between behaviourism and humanism is that behaviourists use animals as well as humans in the procedure of an experiment as they believe that animals learn in a similar fashion to that of humans. ... This process is when a stimulus which brings about no response in a human or animal, until it is associated with another. ... Animals were mostly tested on, because they believed that animals were practical...

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