John B. Watson

1. Explain (in detail) how Watson's "Little Albert" study was conducted.
-Watson conducted a baby that was named, "Little Albert". He was shown a white and scary rat, they afterwards slammed two metal pipes at the back part of his head. Suddenly Little Albert was crying because the two metal pipes produced a loud and annoying noise. Watson continued to slamm the metal pipes to Little Albert everytime he was together with the white rat, But Little Albert always cried when he was together with the white rat. After this the fear generalized, this was a (stimulus generalization), because Little Albert is afraid of animals/people with white hair/beard, all this because the rat had white hair.

2. Identify the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned response from Watson's study.
-Conditioned Stimulus: White rat.
-Unconditioned Stimulus: The loud noise, of the slamming metal pipes.
-Conditioned Response: Little Albert Crying.

3. Explain at least two limitations of this study.
-One of the limitations was that Little Albert was hurt, while the two metal pipes slammed at the back of his head. Little Albert suffered from a animal fobia, becuase the white rat evoked him fear. It was heard that the mother of Little Albert didnt know about the way they were treating his baby.

4. Explain Watson's law of frequency.
-Law of frequency: is about, that the most often two things are connected with one another, the more powerful the association will be.

5. Explain Watson's law of recency.
-Law of recency: Is about the how was the reaction of the stimulus that had just occured.

6. Explain the basic assumptions of behaviorism according to Watson.
-Watson approved that psycology has nothing to do with the mind or the humans, but, with behaviors, This way people could be studied.