1. Case Study of Child "G"
For Watson, emotional development is made up of diverse parts; of building a group of interconnecting reactions through conditioning from simpler reactions; for example a newborns' unlearned reactions of fear, rage, and love can be conditioned through the process of various stimuli. The so-called Little Albert Experiment; where Watson used conditioning methods with an eleven-month-old boy to show fear when confronted in controlled conditions with a white rat, using sound association to invoke fear; visually demonstrated that it is possible. The suggestion is that reactions previously not ...
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