Discuss the results of the Little Albert experiment conducted by Watson from cla
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Discuss the results of the Little Albert experiment conducted by Watson from classical conditioning perspective. Clearly label the US, UR, CS, CR, and discuss the response generalization and context dependency observed-giving clear behavioral examples to illustrate your points Discuss the results of the Little Albert experiment conducted by Watson from classical conditioning perspective. Clearly label the US, UR, CS, CR, and discuss the response generalization and context dependency observed-giving clear behavioral examples to illustrate your points Discuss the results of the Little Albert experiment conducted by Watson from classical conditioning perspective. Clearly label the US, UR, CS, CR, and discuss the response generalization and context dependency observed-giving clear behavioral examples to illustrate your pointsExplanation / Answer
In the Little Albert experiment conducted by John Watson from the classical conditioning perspective, he included a nine month old baby named Albert as his subject. Albert was introduced with a number of stimulus. He was introduced with a white rat, a rabbit, a monkey, masks, and burning newspapers to observe his reaction to the following stimulus. Albert showed no fear in response to any of the stimulus. However, every time a rat was introduced to Albert, a loud noise was made by the experimenter. This obviously elicited a response in Albert and he began crying. He initially only cried on hearing the loud noise. However, on occasions when the noise and the rat were paired together, Albert soon began crying at the sight of the rat.
Classical Conditioning is a type of associative learning. A stimulus is associated with a response. There are four major elements of classical conditioning. An Unconditioned Stimulus (UCS), is a stimulus which produces a response without any kind of prior learning. An Unconditioned Response (USR), is an automatic response which is unlearned and is elicited on presentation of unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned Stimulus (CS) in classical conditioning is previously a neutral stimulus that eventually elicits the Conditioned Response(CR) after being paired with the Unconditioned Stimulus (US).
In the above experiment, the US, is the loud noise, UR, is the fear, CS, is the white rat and CR is the learnt fear.
Response generalization clearly occurred in the above experiment because Albert not only feared the white rat, but his response was generalized to every other white and furry object that he encountered. Albert developed a fear for fur toys and also Santa's white beard. His fear became a generalized response to anything which was close to looking like a white rat.
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