John Watson - Pequeno Albert (legendado)

[MrTacitGrunt]

so what taught the baby to associate a loud noise with bad?

[Albion105]

@MrTacitGrunt The loud noise makes the baby jump, because it's quick and unexpected, your own son/parent can make you jump if he/she catches you unexpected, and seeing as the baby saw the rat whist getting jumped by the noise, it's subconscious developed a fear from the "jump" supposedly caused by the mouse or anything with similar features.

[apinkg16]

just saw this in my Psych class...this is so mean The baby did is scared of Santa:(

[RachieGalmbert]

Poor Little Albert :(, Oh well at least John B. Watson was trying to prove a point about how fears are formed in individuals.

[kellbell408]

now the poor kid is gonna be scared of animals it's entire life.

[shamizanottz]

@kellbell408 The mother took the baby before Mr.Watson was able to fix what he had done.

[roselime24]

Infelizmente os experimentos sem etica que acontecem hoje sao muito piores. Aparentemente os pesquisadores, psicologos ou medicos (sejam o que for) psicopaticos ficam fazendo uma miseria na vida dos vitimas e nao ficam na prisao ou no inferno com aquele Mengele. Isto e real. Sou vitima e ja sei bem como e. Acho que no Brasil as leis sao melhores - nos EUA isso nao e bem controlado e aparentement tem partes do governo que formam parte do abuso e a injustica para nos vitimas.

[artistbeinghuman]

Perhaps Watson's dislike for children was actually a dislike for the lack of cultivation of their behaviors by the parents. True today. Children were and are still often not being taught behaviors so much as they are just "developed" out of whatever comes along.... He advised parents to be proactive rather than leave it up to dumb luck. It's true some behaviors would indicate that children may be "raised by wolves".

[DanteWhite]

Behaviorism= Epic Fail

[MusicStudyMan]

@DanteWhite Really? So you think the two thriteen year odls who blew themselves up last month in the name of Allah were born suicide bombers and would have committed their acts of terrorism if taken at birth to live with a buddhist middle class family in London, UK? Twat.

[dp1582]

MY main problem with Psychology is the emphasis we put on the people who theorized, rather than the theories themselves. Half of my tests have been asking who came up with what, rather than being able to practice what they taught us. I am a Biology major, and the field of bio has been weeding out Scientist's names and replacing things with descriptive words instead. I think Psych books should start focusing on relating concepts rather than chronological history of names.

[artistbeinghuman]

@dp1582 nice point. 

[TheCarlos64]

Watson was I believe misguided, he doesn't take into account that as we get older we are able to reason out many of our irrational fears, something the behaviorists would deny as possible. If their belief that the personality was completely learned then rationality could not really exist nor could any emotion that we were not taught to feel.

[dp1582]

@TheCarlos64 i'd have to disagree with most of what you have to say here.

[MusicStudyMan]

@TheCarlos64 OMG - are you really clever trying to sound dumb on purpose or are you really stupid trying to sound clever? Seriously??? Firstly, all our emotions are instinctual - the labels and interpretations are learned (in terms of negative emotions 100% learned incorrectly) . Irrational fears (phobias) are rarely reasoned out - that's ther point of them being irrational. If you do reason out your phobia then you have just self-taught (learned) a new way of thinking.

[juliebugification]

Little Albert died. He didn't live past the age of 2.

[silvankhim]

Douglas "Little Albert" Merritte died at the age of 6 due to hydrocephalus. I wonder how he would be if he lived.

[santizzle93]

@silvankhim I actually heard today in phsyc. that he lived and grew up, my teacher may be wrong though

[johngpsych]

Amazing how far things have come

[PhillyGirl1]

but wasn't the child naturally scared by the sudden banging sound? I mean that's why the baby associated it with the white rat any how?

[Leinlover]

He studies the behaviour of babies, hundreds of them

WEEEEEEH

[vickycitamdc]

what happened with little Albert???

[binglemarie42]

This "experiment" wasn't a true experiment at all: there was only one participant (not two or more levels of an independent variable) and there wasn't adequate control of the independent variable (the dog barked suddenly at one point, Watson decided to "freshen" the association between the sound and the rat more than once, and he once presented the sound with the rabbit). This study may have been influential, but it was not much more experimentally rigorous than Freud's case studies.

[xLilMissAJx]

An article in the latest edition of American Psychologist recounts a detective story, led by psychologist Hall Beck, to try and solve the question of what happened to 'Little Albert' after his participation in the famous study.

There were no others traces of Arvilla Merritte (Little Alberts Mother) but a search for her maiden name, Arvilla Irons, revealed that her married name was likely fictitious to hide the fact that her baby was illegitimate.

[xLilMissAJx]

Little Albert died at the age of 6 !!!! Unrealated to this experiment but it means noone will ever know the levels of how deep his phobia affected him.

Citation : Finding little Albert: A journey to John B. Watsons infant laboratory.

Beck, Hall P.; Levinson, Sharman; Irons, Gary

American Psychologist. Vol 64(7), Oct 2009, 605-614.

[CBoneSImWolf]

later in 1924 Watson and Jones were able to make conditionning for a little boy named Peter who was afraid of rabits. making people have fears is no longer allowed nowadays.

[n0rmalkid]

"you can become what you like to be, even if your not there yet."

what bogus. obviously people who believe this don't really even understand the implications. according to behaviorism, you can become exactly what your society and environment make you. likewise determined by society and environment, and so on into infinity. you are an inevitable response to an inevitable stimulus.

[AubrieMamaBB]

Wow. This guy was a freak. I just learned about him in my Psychology class. Poor poor Baby Albert

[slmoore32]

Actually, if in Psychology class then you learned that John Watson is the man invented the theory of behaviorism. The definition of psychology is the scientifc study of the mind and BEHAVIOR. He created a major break through that is the primary basis in psychology today. Yes, this study was unethical, back then they didn't have the American Psychological Association. It wasn't formalized until 1958 but a lot of studies that took place then we use today.

[soepresoquemquer]

Muito obrigado pela disponibilização do vídeo! Abs

[MazzingerZ7]

John Watson = Josef Mengele

[lococista]

I am Albert, i don't like de T-bears!

[paolaaa6]

Nobody ever knows what happened to Little Albert. I learned in my Psychology class that, after the experiment Watson never checked up on him ! All his files were gone. Nobody knows if he got adopted to another family, if the fear ever went away or what so ever. As a matter of fact nobody ever knew his whole real name.

[Liss901]

My psych teacher said his mum pulled him from the experiment, and wouldn't allow them to do anything else to him.

[ivyhageman]

Unfortunately Watson isn't entirely right. You're not shaped entirely by your environment.

[Nette113]

well it rlly wasnt his fault wen u think about it cause albert got adopted and his parents didnt allow watson or rosalie to see albert to even be able to get him to recover

[naughtydevil02]

god,,, how can u say it wasnt his fault....i mean i appreciate watson nd everytjhing but he ruined albert's life...and how cud his parents let him go baq to watson when they broke their child!?!?

u cold bitch!

[jdrw5]

This isn't me.

[b0ssh0gg]

no no no... i'm looking for JohnnY "GUITAR" Watson! ("space guitar" if you're gonna find out who he is)

this is interesting tho..

[foxxxdiee]

what was even worse, is like after a traumatizing experience with patients, you're supposed to check up on them after 6 months to know they're ok, but watson never did that to albert. So who know how he turned out after.

[cancerbero8]

Apparently, if Watson is right, then you can reverse the phobias with a similar process. Yet he didn't do it, leaving the poor kid with a furry phobia.

[Liss901]

His mother was traumatized herself and pulled him out of the experiment, and they didn't have a chance to reverse it.

[mrpaiva04]

What ever happened to little Albert?

[Elphaba555]

he opened a pet store...

[cossackover9000]

Poor little Albert :(

But, the implications of the study were clearly valuable nonetheless.

[ivyhageman]

I feel the same way. I can't help but feeling bad for the baby but if it wasn't for studies like this we wouldn't know a lot of the information we do about operant and classical condidtioning that we do today.

[angelayap526]

I think the only thing he proved here was that he was able to effectivly scare the shit out of a baby

[2muchxz]

Watson may have been lacking any form of ethics whatsoever, and it isnt hard to feel sorry for the poor kid, but hey, you have to admit, he proved his point.

[moonkissedthesun]

well back in watson's day there was no such thing as ethics so he could pretty much do whatever he wanted. but indeed you are right poor baby albert.

[nutmeg7194]

The study is not an experiment (an experiment requires at least two levels of an independent variable). It is a pilot study at best. Also, it is very unlikely that Little Albert's fera of furry things was sustained through life, as only 31 days after being conditioned to fear the rat, he allowed it to crawl towards him without withdrawing, though there is no doubt it was unethical.

[sadahtay]

the man at 2:46 has a nasty sunburn

[XoMerryoX]

aww, can you imagine being afraid of bunnies? That is so sad. :'-(

[jazzy1one]

i am currently in college psychology 101 studying watson's theory....it has been a great contribution to the world of psychology and i think his expiriment with "little albert" was very accurate in the field of learning.

[Kinematics001]

From my point of view, John Watson bear a huge responsiblity of reconditioning back Little Albert. No doubt he has discovered something amazing that contributed to the field of Psychology, it is inexcusable for him to leave the baby as it is.

[rr92890]

this is also the early 1900s...lets be serious here. People sold tape worms as magic weightloss pills and mixed shit in their basement and called it medicine

[bootray]

Reading the posts for this vid, it's obvious that a lot of people don't know that this kind of thing wasn't uncommon in scientific research at the time. There were countless unethical experiments done on unsuspecting subjects (Milgram's experiments come to mind). That excuses nothing, but it's a little naive getting outraged over something that happened 75-ish years ago, when questionable research methods were acceptable (by the scientific community AND the public).

[madmongoose267]

If you wanna make an omelet you have to break some eggs.

[lilcrackman]

this is inhuman! wheres the ethic?! he was just a child a babe! this is disgusting. watch a person like Jhon Watson doing this, he was mentally ill. definetely he deserve death sentence, it really doesn't matters if he cleared a lot of mysteries of psicology thats not even a excuse to do such a thing.

[judas4510]

this was the 1920s... it was information that we NEEDED or could at least use. Also, how can you say that John Watson was "mentally ill"? He did about as much for the field of psychology as Eric Erickson or Sigmund Freud; he is the FATHER of behaviorism, which is one of the strongest fields of Psychology today. Someone who is "mentally ill" would most likely not be capable of formulating such an elaborate experiment, so before you throw words around, know what they mean.

[Lymojo]

It was definitely morally ambiguous, but the death sentence? It's not like he was raping or killing. If it makes you feel any better, his career and marriage were ruined a few months after these experiments concluded, after it was revealed that he was having an affair with his research assistant.

[9inzaghi9]

im doing psychopathology course now does any 1 know what happend to the baby later in his life???

[majakelly]

Albert left Watson's lab before he was unconditioned. There are no records about whether his fear persisted or even what Albert's future was.

[rr92890]

think about it. Somewhere there is some 80year old dude just shittin himself when he sees fury stuff hahaha...that's tragic

[lunaticalovegood]

hahahah that's cruelly funny

[ShadowWaker101]

I almost threw up when I saw this, today is the first day I read bout it, just a short little article. Not even 2 paragraphs. I researched it a little more and it just is amazing. Where is the line of ethics drawn? What could have happened to this little child.

[kinneyboy90]

John Watson was a prick. It doesn't matter what happened to Albert post-experiment: what is important is the fact that Watson could not know with certainty how much this would effect the child. But the fact that he went on and did the experiment, without the mother's permission, is a testament to the fact that he was an unethical and very bad psychologist.

[ebutuoyneves]

Its is unethical this times but not in John B. Watson's times. The knowledge gain through this experiment has help thousands of kids to cope with fear problems, among other things. How many of the murder, abused, and even raped kids(sometimes in the hands of their own parents) have helped as much as Little Albert???

[Rockinallover]

It was valuable in so far has how phobias may be formed however since the response was not de-conditioned, it had limited value.

[lilcrackman]

excuse me murders,abused and raped kids is another kind of crime. you don't see rapers doing a psicological test while they're raping a vicitim, or does they? by the way it was unethical at that time. besides he did the experiment without the mother permission that still unethical.

[NumbFaith]

Judging others who lived in the past by the moral standards of the present is seriously flawed. Of course his experiment is repulsive to any rational individual today, but in 1920 it was a different society, different morals and a different world.

You may be quick to pass judgement upon others, but think about how the people of the future will judge you if they make the same mistake as you did. Compared to their world and morals, yours may seem horrifying. Are you thus a bad person? I think not

[gothexperiments]

very good

[sarahhunt05]

actually, an article came out several years ago about what happened to little albert. i think it was published in american psychologist.

[pepsirica]

They break almost all of the unethical rules of psychology today, and no one really knows what happened to little Albert... not happy.

They never reversed the effects of the phobia they gave him, so who knows how it affected him.

[effentjes]

For the concept of behaviorism to work, one would understand that in the absence of reinforcement, eventually the fear Albert exhibited would be extinguished. Because of Albert's age, it's highly unlikely he was traumatized, although there is no question such research practices are unethical, and today impossible to conduct.

[cycloniz]

No, before the experiment little albert wasn't afraid of anything, but then after the experiment albert was afraid of all furry things real or stuffed!

[lilkteaqtea]

if you go back and read the original research article it clearly states this his mother worked at the hospital.

[JasmineH19]

I understand the unethical part. Some people don't believe this followed him the rest of his life, but I do. I was never afraid of lighting until I heard of someone being struck by lighting. To this day, anytime it is lighting outside, I freak out beyond belief.

[Billiee]

Apparently it DID scar him for life (if I remember correctly), and he went on to fear all white, furry, fluffy things. Even if it didn't, it was hugely unethical to do it as they had no idea if there would be consequences or not. Still, very influencial stuff, often lack of ethics benefits the science world!

[cmanning612]

actually albert was adopted. his mother did not work anywhere cuz he was an orphan haha

[LotusMonk]

His mother worked in a hospital, she was breast feeding children that couldnt be BF. by their mothers.

I don´t know how to call that in english T_T

[debb8er]

ACtually, Albert's mother was a wet nurse and Albert was not an orphan.

[LotusMonk]

No doubts that the experiment and its methods was unethical and wouldnt be allowed in present times. To say that he was traumatized for the rest of his life MAY be not be completely correct. I agree that it had to leave some kind of emotional scar, but every kid comes across some kind of irrelevant (or relevant, doesnt matter) fear in their childhood and eventually find a way how to deal with it.

[LotusMonk]

This documentary didnt state that Albert was almost extremely phlegmatic (didnt give a s**t easily) and that in one week break of the experiment he almost forgot that rat=noise.

All in all, I dont think that the experiment was the best way how to find out that a person can be taught fear, but overall dont think that the poor kid was damaged that much.

[lokazbyte]

what r u talkin about, little albert was traumatized for the rest of his life, he has a phobia to specifically white furry animals and objects

[Baroque1750]

Give me a break...this expirement wasn't that bad. They just made the baby cry. Even though this effect probably lasted througout childhood, it is doubtful he would fear them in adolescence and even more doubtful in adult years

[fatmaj]

nope, i studied this case today; apparently it lasted all his life...:S

[RiverCityURansom]

They actually did a report on little albert on 20/20 or something to that effect later in his adulthood. He has many psychological disorders as a result of this experiment. The reason it was so traumatizing was because humans are born with an instinctual fear of heights and loud noises. Although these fears are minimalized as time goes on, little albert is just an infant and was therefore traumatized

[KingOystar]

I saw this in my Psyc class. very cool. but Dr Watson was pretty mean to scare little Albert.

[jm0n3y21]

poor poor babies..

[nintendomiko]

poor albert...

[eagles0515]

Pitt

[Aim5ly]

nah, his mother worked at the research center at another part of the research center and didn't know about albert being taken for the experiment. watson knew a month in advanced that alberts mother was leaving the research clinic yet took no steps to extinguish his fear response- quite unethical

[YTS]

wow,

interesting!

[spocksbeardanddt]

ethically this experiment was outragous, but the baby was withdrawn from the experiment by its mother before they could recondition the baby to not have fear in presence of those objects. So her having a fearful child is partly her fault, but how could they be sure that the reconditioning actually remove that fear?

good video by the way

[Terenz43]

Thanks! - very useful.