... behaviorist was John B. Watson. Watson conducted many experiments, but his most famous one involved a child named "Little Albert" in 1920. Watson took "Little Albert" and placed him in a room with a white laboratory mouse. At first, Albert enjoyed the company of the mouse and played with it joyfully. But in the second part of the experiment, Watson banged a steel bar with a hammer ... , creating a loud and startling noise. This noise obviously frightened Albert, and Watson would create the noise every time Albert would reach for the mouse. Eventually, Albert developed a fear of white mic...

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... 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. Operant conditioning takes into effect when behavior is repeated and is strengthening by the consequences. If the ... ...

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