Watson took "Little Albert" and placed him in a room with a white laboratory mouse. ... 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 mice. ...

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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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