The real cruelty in this behaviouristical experiment (if you can call it so) was, that the little boy was conditioned to feel fear when seeing the rat (and later all furry) and later was left alone with this phobia. they never "re-conditioned" the fear.
It is important to learn about human beings because it teaches us about our bodies and how our mind works. It may not be of interest to you personally but it is important for behavioral sciences. Animal experimentation is brutal and I do not agree with it when it has to do with testing make up or drugs. But this has nothing to do with this experiment and learning about human behavior
"too prove that environment is more powerful than genetics"..simplistic gobbledygook. For some behavioral traits yes and for others no..
Clearly little Albert's fear of having metal bars banged near his head (loud noises) was instinctive (genetics) and his fear of the rat was merely an association made between it and the instinctive fear of the anticipated loud noise.
@TheMissShells Thank you for sharing your opinon. "A true instinct is distinguished from other behaviors by mechanism; they do not go through the brain. Rather, the stimulus travels to the spinal cord and the message is then transmitted back through the body, tracing a path called the reflex arc." Fear based neural processing is thus excluded from the category of true reflex. Hope that clears things up :)
If a guy in a Santa mask was coming after me, I'd be scared too.
All talk about human experiment and animal testing ethics aside, I don't think anyone will disagree that it is not nice to purposely make a baby cry and fear something.
Well think about it, all your sympathy towards animals are nothing more than your ego at play. The animals don't care that much about you either. As a species, it is only logical that humans use other species (animals in this case) for experiments that they believe will be of benefit to themselves. We can all be zen masters AFTER solving these scientific problems and achieving immortality or whatnot, and to do that, animal testing is a neccesity.
@evlon Actually, animals and humans can react differently to different things. Testing a human product on an animal could have an adverse result when used on a human. Seriously, how fucking hard is this to get? Are you twelve years old?
@EpikHater ooo nice call wiseguy. Do you have the slightest idea of the reasoning behind conducting clinical trials and the animal testing done before them? And so you are saying because the animals might show a different reaction so we should just skip them and immediately work on humans? Whoah talk about ethics....
You believe my comment is stupid based on what you were raised to believe, that humans are superior to all other forms of life and should rightfully rule the planet and beyond. Personally, I don't find much more productive use to the stability of the planet than say, a fly. Parking lots and factories have done such great things to the ecosystem, right? The only redeeming feature I find is that some humans can actually learn to try and fix what damage they do.
@Melthian Seriouls! Wow. I don't even know what to say to that stupid comment you just made. I just hope someone doesn't have to make that decision about your life.. geez!
omg im soo sick of animal right activists. i love animals but who the hell loves animals more than humans -.- humans are worth way more than animals and i would rather kill 20 bunnies than make a baby suffer from phobias
@annahpanna exactly anna. That's what I'm talking about. Seriously what's mentally wrong with ppl who have to question if humans are worth more than animals!
This is in the name of science. Science requires a few ethical sacrifices. How else could we determine the cause of phobias in humans if we didn't practice it on a human?
I am gonna get hate for this, but i dont understand why experiments on humans are such a big deal, when hundreds of animals including baby animals are experimented on, often more brutally. Why is animal life no more important than us?
@the1princefrank Actually it is about saving someone because most experiments that involve animals are used to help save people. And it really boggles my mind that ppl would question if human life is more important that animal life...serioulsy!? For real!? lol
@canaja37 This is not a question of morality of who would i rather save. I just fail to realise why we've been raised this way that animal life has become almost irrelevant to us, we just dont care about it. we should atleast have a figment of compassion for animals and not treat them like scum.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit are you telling me that if you had to make the decision of killing a human or an animal like a mouse, rabbit etc. you would choose to save the animal instead of the human?
@SuperSuperblueberry Not exactly to that extreme but I do dot believe it is not right to torture an animal who cannot do something for it self. Maybe not work with children but with actual adults who have the ability to reason. but again this is just my opinion.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Actually it is about saving someone because most experiments that involve animals are used to help save people. And you made the statement about animal life being just as important as human life. based on your statement if you had a choice between saving an animal or child you would have a hard time deciding because human life is no more important that animals
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit ~I'm not hating, i like your point of view. Some of the earliest studies of behaviorism in psychology were conducted on animals. the ethics and morals of experimental psychology were in full bloom at this point in time, along with Little Albert. I can understand why this study was conducted, but why not an older child who may have been able to recover adequately? say, 5 year old.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Sorry, I read your comment wrong and I thought you were saying that experiments on animals weren't a big deal. The way I commented made me look like a huge asshole...
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit You wouldn't say that if your child was selected for this experiment and if you still felt the same way you are a fool. Btw, I love animals more than most people.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit some people just shitty beings, it is the number one reason. And i believe this video should be an psychological experiment about trash people not the baby Albert.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit with their consent maybe...how would you like it if someone took you as a baby and fucked with you and left you fucked permanently? doing it to animals is no better, but just because they do it to animals does not mean it's OKAY to do it on humans, it's not okay for both cases.
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit don't be stupid. You know the reason. It's cause u wouldn't wanna sacrifice your life... human life. Not everything can be equal in the world
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Thats the thing, its not whether its human or animal. I think you need to view some of the real experiments that goes down even today to human beings without this propaganda shit to realize they are doing horrendous crimes. I dont recommend it but there are videos that are leaked all over internet you just have to search hard.. its really sickening and i cant even watch them all the way through
@melsmith2 he did, which was a shame because John Watson was happy to reverse it and use classical conditioning to undo his phobias, but "Little Albert's" gaurdian removed him from the study before it could be done
This video is amazing since most people believe the way they feel and think about life isn't solely from their surroundings. It's why you find groups of people doing things you would consider completely taboo, but is normal to them, such as sacrifice.
Children have been used as guinea pigs throughout civilized history. Anything that disrupts/confuses the developmental process is a molestation. Any intentional stressors added to those unavoidable in daily existence, are abuses. The question is what kind of molestations and abuses are the least unhealthy. Contemporary conditioning involves unscientific assumptions and correlations, and yet we base future societies on these things because they are convenient.
dont be so sad....when he was done with the experiment he"took the fear back" if i can say that....he used operant conditioning to reduse the fear and little albert was fine....
@9alexcook3 i am kinda sure they did .... i was studying this case at my college and i am pretty sure the teacher stated that they took the fear back....
No, Little Albert was not a orphan, we now know his identity. Unfortunately, he was a child who died of water on the brain! What difference does this make know? John Watson was a genius!
@IRANisPERSIA1 you were a child once.. how would u feel if someone had input on you random fears with which you would have to live the rest of your life?
Albert died aged 6 of an infection, His real name was Douglas, His mother worked as a nurse and was paid a dollar day for the experiments in the 1920's hence the footage. Check out "The Brain, A secret history" BBC documentary if your interested.
My Psychology Proffesor told the class that Albert while growing up was fearful of many small, furry white things, even santa clauses beard. but through treatment was able to extinct his conditioning and not be afraid anymore.
@CaLLMehDOC I am glad you brought up this point. I personaly see where all the different stages of developement play a role and how different tHEORIES from psychonalytic (Freud) all the way up to and including Hollands Personality Theory of Career Satisfaction influence our developement. I tend to be more of a subcriber of Eclectic/Composite schools of thought with emphisis on Cognative Theories such as Piaget.
In relation to this exact experiment and theory, the fear is built and conditioned
@BergR1 He died when he was 6(ish) of TB, I think. His mother, who apparently was not aware of this happening, took him away before he was desensitised. So we can assume that he was still fearful of furry things, unless he became desensitised through growing up, but this is probs unlikely.
@BergR1 He was adopted but later died (no relation to the experiment). However he was only manged to be able to be tracked down after he died so we don't know if he ever showed a phobia towards rats after this experiment.
@sarsfieldusmc modern day people are overly sensitive and think everything will kill them. if you dont think so work in a public elementary school. the parents are the biggest hurdle in the child's life.
makes me wonder what other experiments might have been conducted to find out if it was the noise itself that scared him and when furry objects were in his presence if he fear that certain noise to come... not the object itself. what a shotty experiment.
We define torture today as causing mental or physical pain or suffering. Watson did none of this. He didn't burn the child with the fire and the rat didn't bite him. And I can guarantee that this child had absolutely no recollection that this event ever took place when he grew older or has any ill effects from hearing about it later in life.
@MrJDCannon06 It doesn't show when he was using clown marks and monster masks. This went on for several minutes after the rat experiment, and of course little Albert was terrified of the scary masks.
It has been described as torture by several physiologists.
The little child died not long after the experiment.
@MrJDCannon06 Just curious, how can you guarantee such a thing, if no one really knew what happened to Little Albert after the experiment, not even Watson himself. I am not saying he was terribly damaged by the experiment, but if you are going to guarantee something, I would like to see some evidence. I think people will be interested to know what happened to Albert and being that you are so privileged to know, then please enlighten us.
The effects of Albert's conditioning of fear with furry objects would become extinct years later. Unless someone were to continually recondition him. The kid was fine.
@bex194 Precious little ethics in psychiatry today either. I live with a psychiatrist and she is one of the few who is neither misguided nor sold out and the first to admit that her proffesion is in crisis.
@SpitfireFang Many of the greatest discoveries in psychiatry were made by the nazi's. They really managed to take it to a whole new level and many of the discoveries they made are the basis of modern psychiatry. Personally although I am closely involved with a qualified psychiatrist (not professionally I am glad to say lol)I have still never seen a scrap of evidence that this so called profession has ever provided mankind with anywhere as much tangible benefit as has been done real harm.
Although by today's standards (And my own) the treatment of Albert was unethical. But you have to consider the positive repercussions, because of Watson's thesis: "babies being a product of their environment" many parents have taken a more ethical stance but in the same direction. Without even knowing of Locke's Tabula Rasa or Watson's Little Albert experiment. Many parents will say you have to teach kids the difference between "good and bad" so I'd say it's effects had some positive impact.
@HugoTheMonkey Are you saying parents did not know before then that their job was to teach their children morality and the concept of wrong and wrong. I am incredulous. Like much about psychiatry. Common sense is packaged up as a discovery and people are resold what they already knew as if it is new hard won knowledge.
@ProfessorGhabouris Dude that baby was permanently fucked up with phobias of so many animals . . . Experiments like that aren't done anymore for a good reason.
@gameyD92 Actually little Albert was just fine. The great thing about Pavlovian conditioning is the extinction of these conditioned responses happens when the object, in this case furry animals, is no longer associated with the loud noise or negative reinforcement
@gameyD92 Not exactly. It wouldve been so if the stimulus continued, but it didnt. The conditioned reflex dissapears once it is realized that it isnt the same as a the aversive stimulus.
Yeah I'd be scared as shit too if some creepy old guy was getting up in my grill with a bunny mask on. Little Albert was probably the second shooter on the grassy knoll or something
@starrish He's 8 months old, he wont remember it next week. + The only long term things is that he's scared of rats? Oh no.. end of the world for him.
@angusthemint He's going to grow up with this development and not even understand it. And obviously it will stay with him forever, unless it reversed somehow. Its not the end of the world but no one deserves this.
@bryanivich he was happy to undo the phobias. It was his main care givers fault for refusing and removing "Little Albert" from the study before J. Watson got a chance
that is one crumbled up little cookie! wonder what ever happened to "Little Albert" how much therapy did he end up needing. cruel. but then again would we know about behavior conditioning without this experiment? Does that make it ethical? does it make it ethical to use this information? can we use information gained by the nazi's after they're experimentation in the concentration camps? some say what is done is done. hmmmmm, i will have to ponder this idea more fully.
that is one crumbled up little cookie! wonder what ever happened to "Little Albert" how much therapy did he end up needing. cruel. but then again would we know about behavior conditioning without this experiment? Does that make it ethical? does it make it ethical to use this information? can we use information gained by the nazi's after they're experimentation in the concentration camps? some say what is done is done. hmmmmm, i will have to ponder this idea more fully.
the experiment is clearly unethical thats why its not done anymore....Watson was suppose to take his fear away after the experiment but little Albert and his family had moved away. :/
@TomluvJay Hi thats intersting I have Hydrocephalus and was born with it although it did not cause problems until I was about 5. I imagine it was probably something he was also born with as he was so young unless he suffered from an unknown head injury or tumor which can often cause hydrocephalus in adults. I assume the tests really didn't help him. It would be intersting to see if the results would have been the same as the child not had hydrocephalus?
Little Albert was the son of a wetnurse who worked at the hospital Watson and Reyner looked for candidates. He did die at a young age from fluid on the brain, commonly known as water head. His mother did not suddenly pull the plug on the experiment and whisk Albert away, both Watson and Reyner knew Albert would be leaving in a month's time and made no effort to decondition him. As a psychology major in a Master's program I know what I am talking about. Get your facts straight people!
none of you know what you are talking about. John Watson was doing experiments about behaviorism. Seeing if a child from a small age can be taught to be scared of something based off of fear. Your mothers probably did the same thing with a candle. "Let him burn himself once. He will learn". I know now a days it is known that someone will learn this way. When Watson did these experiments in the 1800's it wasn't known. He was the first. Oh and no phoenixreal that isn't true. Albert was an orphan
@ISurvived666 Close, but not quite. Much like Pavlov's dogs, Watson was attempting to prove the existence of stimulus and response in learning. "Seeing if a child from a small age can be taught to be scared of something based off of fear," is perhaps poorly worded. He was seeing if a child could be conditioned to fear a thing without the thing itself being the cause, in which he succeeded.
@ISurvived666 hey I have two questions that eliminate all crediblity of Watsons intentions. Did watson uncondition Albert? Also did you know what Watson did personally with his results? If you know the answer to that question then you will understand why Watson was not the great psychologist you may believe him to be.
@str3ngth0nly1 His mother pulled him out of the experiment before they could uncondition him. Little Albert B died at the age of six in 1925 of hydrocephalus. Pavlov and Watson's experiments have been a great help in the science of psychology. Wikipedia has an entire page about this experiment and little Albert. He is buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mt. Airy, Maryland.
The real cruelty in this behaviouristical experiment (if you can call it so) was, that the little boy was conditioned to feel fear when seeing the rat (and later all furry) and later was left alone with this phobia. they never "re-conditioned" the fear.
MissYutani 33 minutes ago
@ 0:53 I thought Cutest experiment ever lol
rissarae3 1 day ago
Poor Albert.
I'm guessing he never had a stuffed teddy bear, SINCE HE LEARNED TO FEAR EVERYTHING FURRY.
chocobosROK 2 days ago
experiments in humans are no big fucking deal jesus christ same with animals
LegitBacKd00rNiNJa69 2 weeks ago in playlist Learning
Erm. A person can choose. An animal doesn't get a choice. Fact.
missrb1985 2 weeks ago
It is important to learn about human beings because it teaches us about our bodies and how our mind works. It may not be of interest to you personally but it is important for behavioral sciences. Animal experimentation is brutal and I do not agree with it when it has to do with testing make up or drugs. But this has nothing to do with this experiment and learning about human behavior
kmartin0020 3 weeks ago
"too prove that environment is more powerful than genetics"..simplistic gobbledygook. For some behavioral traits yes and for others no..
Clearly little Albert's fear of having metal bars banged near his head (loud noises) was instinctive (genetics) and his fear of the rat was merely an association made between it and the instinctive fear of the anticipated loud noise.
REALITY2point0 1 month ago
@REALITY2point0 It's not instinctive, it's reflex.
TheMissShells 1 month ago
@TheMissShells Thank you for sharing your opinon. "A true instinct is distinguished from other behaviors by mechanism; they do not go through the brain. Rather, the stimulus travels to the spinal cord and the message is then transmitted back through the body, tracing a path called the reflex arc." Fear based neural processing is thus excluded from the category of true reflex. Hope that clears things up :)
REALITY2point0 1 month ago
I know this is horrible, but c'mon at least we learned about classical conditioning thanks to this little experiment
goitom45 1 month ago
Damn shoot me 0:53.
nitro300 2 months ago
If a guy in a Santa mask was coming after me, I'd be scared too.
All talk about human experiment and animal testing ethics aside, I don't think anyone will disagree that it is not nice to purposely make a baby cry and fear something.
kagnomi 3 months ago
Little Albert died at age six. Just thought i would put that out there
brokencondom48 4 months ago
@brokencondom48 yes he died of acquired hydrocephalus, which is nothing to do with the experiment watson carried out
rockNrollGF 4 months ago
Well think about it, all your sympathy towards animals are nothing more than your ego at play. The animals don't care that much about you either. As a species, it is only logical that humans use other species (animals in this case) for experiments that they believe will be of benefit to themselves. We can all be zen masters AFTER solving these scientific problems and achieving immortality or whatnot, and to do that, animal testing is a neccesity.
evlon 4 months ago
@evlon Actually, animals and humans can react differently to different things. Testing a human product on an animal could have an adverse result when used on a human. Seriously, how fucking hard is this to get? Are you twelve years old?
EpikHater 3 months ago
@EpikHater ooo nice call wiseguy. Do you have the slightest idea of the reasoning behind conducting clinical trials and the animal testing done before them? And so you are saying because the animals might show a different reaction so we should just skip them and immediately work on humans? Whoah talk about ethics....
evlon 3 months ago
You believe my comment is stupid based on what you were raised to believe, that humans are superior to all other forms of life and should rightfully rule the planet and beyond. Personally, I don't find much more productive use to the stability of the planet than say, a fly. Parking lots and factories have done such great things to the ecosystem, right? The only redeeming feature I find is that some humans can actually learn to try and fix what damage they do.
Melthian 4 months ago
I'd actually consider the rabbit/rat/dog/whatever more worthwhile to save than a human. Dogs don't level acres of forest and horses don't strip mine.
Melthian 4 months ago
@Melthian Seriouls! Wow. I don't even know what to say to that stupid comment you just made. I just hope someone doesn't have to make that decision about your life.. geez!
canaja37 4 months ago
@Melthian So if I asked you whether you wanted a mouse to live or yourself, you would choose the animal over your own life?
kagnomi 3 months ago
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eeeeelseels 4 months ago
omg im soo sick of animal right activists. i love animals but who the hell loves animals more than humans -.- humans are worth way more than animals and i would rather kill 20 bunnies than make a baby suffer from phobias
annahpanna 4 months ago 2
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the1princefrank 4 months ago
@annahpanna exactly anna. That's what I'm talking about. Seriously what's mentally wrong with ppl who have to question if humans are worth more than animals!
canaja37 4 months ago
@annahpanna
This is in the name of science. Science requires a few ethical sacrifices. How else could we determine the cause of phobias in humans if we didn't practice it on a human?
pinheadman665 5 days ago
Well, poor "Little Albert".... Permanently scarred and scared for life.
JacobVanW1 4 months ago
@JacobVanW1 he wasn't scared for long he died aged 6.
e7242 4 months ago
I am gonna get hate for this, but i dont understand why experiments on humans are such a big deal, when hundreds of animals including baby animals are experimented on, often more brutally. Why is animal life no more important than us?
MEGAoneARMEDbandit 5 months ago 40
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Because that's how we're taught to think.
Sebajunk 5 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit you should volunteer yourself and your children for the next pharmaceutical experiment you get wind of
FranchisePlaySports 4 months ago
@FranchisePlaySports lol i would but too young to have kids...and i volunteer against these experiments so yeah :/
MEGAoneARMEDbandit 4 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit If you had a choice between saving a baby or saving a rabbit you would choose the rabbit?
canaja37 4 months ago
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the1princefrank 4 months ago
Respond to this video... this isnt about saving someone, it is about purposely causing someone harm
the1princefrank 4 months ago
@the1princefrank Actually it is about saving someone because most experiments that involve animals are used to help save people. And it really boggles my mind that ppl would question if human life is more important that animal life...serioulsy!? For real!? lol
canaja37 4 months ago
@canaja37 This is not a question of morality of who would i rather save. I just fail to realise why we've been raised this way that animal life has become almost irrelevant to us, we just dont care about it. we should atleast have a figment of compassion for animals and not treat them like scum.
MEGAoneARMEDbandit 4 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit are you telling me that if you had to make the decision of killing a human or an animal like a mouse, rabbit etc. you would choose to save the animal instead of the human?
SuperSuperblueberry 4 months ago 14
@SuperSuperblueberry He's suggesting an equality between the two.
connordp1 2 weeks ago 2
@SuperSuperblueberry Not exactly to that extreme but I do dot believe it is not right to torture an animal who cannot do something for it self. Maybe not work with children but with actual adults who have the ability to reason. but again this is just my opinion.
gatitoroulette15 1 week ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Actually it is about saving someone because most experiments that involve animals are used to help save people. And you made the statement about animal life being just as important as human life. based on your statement if you had a choice between saving an animal or child you would have a hard time deciding because human life is no more important that animals
canaja37 4 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit ~I'm not hating, i like your point of view. Some of the earliest studies of behaviorism in psychology were conducted on animals. the ethics and morals of experimental psychology were in full bloom at this point in time, along with Little Albert. I can understand why this study was conducted, but why not an older child who may have been able to recover adequately? say, 5 year old.
MommyMal24 4 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Because, animals cannot consent to the fucking experiments. HERPDERP, D'HURRRRR.
EpikHater 3 months ago
@EpikHater Haha yeah cuz consent resolves all questions of ethics right? You seriously have that as your argument?
MEGAoneARMEDbandit 3 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Sorry, I read your comment wrong and I thought you were saying that experiments on animals weren't a big deal. The way I commented made me look like a huge asshole...
EpikHater 3 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit
So you value your family members life the same way you value a dog, cat, rabbit, monkeys life?
chimunda 3 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit You wouldn't say that if your child was selected for this experiment and if you still felt the same way you are a fool. Btw, I love animals more than most people.
ChocolatePoop1301 3 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit ok give ur baby up for experiments then
sumbalgillani 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit cuz they cant talk or matter
MONSTERcrave 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit “Sensitization”「鋭敏化」
２００５年、父の死と集団ストーカー犯罪被害について下関市長府署に問い合わせに赴いた際、クボタ刑事は、警察に共通の「それはあなたの被害妄想だ」とトボケる対応を示したが、同刑事は不意に「そのうち家の前を車が通っただけで怖がるようになるよ」と実は集団ストーカー犯罪に学習心理学が悪用されている実態を把握していることを図らずも暴露した。
実際2009年、カリフォルニアで間借りしていた家の大家とトイレを修繕していた際、シンとしている所へ、ひときわ大きなエンジン音の車が通った瞬間、大家はビクッとして全身に震いが走り顔をひきつらせた。この大家も集団ストーカー被害があることは時折、言外に認めていた。
GroundZeroHiroshima 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit some people just shitty beings, it is the number one reason. And i believe this video should be an psychological experiment about trash people not the baby Albert.
coldnightz 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Feed ur baby with dog food, then we talk.
MyNameIsRayChong 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit with their consent maybe...how would you like it if someone took you as a baby and fucked with you and left you fucked permanently? doing it to animals is no better, but just because they do it to animals does not mean it's OKAY to do it on humans, it's not okay for both cases.
idiiidit 2 months ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit don't be stupid. You know the reason. It's cause u wouldn't wanna sacrifice your life... human life. Not everything can be equal in the world
wmaxx3 3 weeks ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit I had respect for that until your last sentance
johnfox3 3 weeks ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit *finishes eating fried chicken and throws the drumstick on the plate*
Because....
SRNF 1 week ago
@MEGAoneARMEDbandit Thats the thing, its not whether its human or animal. I think you need to view some of the real experiments that goes down even today to human beings without this propaganda shit to realize they are doing horrendous crimes. I dont recommend it but there are videos that are leaked all over internet you just have to search hard.. its really sickening and i cant even watch them all the way through
gaminglaps 1 week ago
R.I.P. Douglas "Little Albert" Merritte,
irvingprez 6 months ago
sekmong
katching02 6 months ago
this would never pass ethics these days.. the poor thing was frightened lol and he must have grown up being frightened of animals poor thing
melsmith2 7 months ago
@melsmith2 he did, which was a shame because John Watson was happy to reverse it and use classical conditioning to undo his phobias, but "Little Albert's" gaurdian removed him from the study before it could be done
the1princefrank 4 months ago
Very interesting... The scary thing is, all those babies in the video are either dead or really, really, old.
angelsite285O 7 months ago
This video is amazing since most people believe the way they feel and think about life isn't solely from their surroundings. It's why you find groups of people doing things you would consider completely taboo, but is normal to them, such as sacrifice.
bterry92 7 months ago
It is not education that humanity lacks; it is awareness.
sheepinavacuum 7 months ago 2
Children have been used as guinea pigs throughout civilized history. Anything that disrupts/confuses the developmental process is a molestation. Any intentional stressors added to those unavoidable in daily existence, are abuses. The question is what kind of molestations and abuses are the least unhealthy. Contemporary conditioning involves unscientific assumptions and correlations, and yet we base future societies on these things because they are convenient.
sheepinavacuum 7 months ago
dont be so sad....when he was done with the experiment he"took the fear back" if i can say that....he used operant conditioning to reduse the fear and little albert was fine....
AngieChasinFireworks 8 months ago
@AngieChasinFireworks they never took the fear back, the parents removed him from the experiment before they could
9alexcook3 8 months ago
@9alexcook3 i am kinda sure they did .... i was studying this case at my college and i am pretty sure the teacher stated that they took the fear back....
AngieChasinFireworks 8 months ago
I've got mixed feelings. I feel bad for poor little Albert, but on the other hand, it's an interesting video to see.
intoarut 8 months ago
@ererye you sir are mentally retarded.totally fucked up
sustantivo1espritu 8 months ago
So he used conditioning to make the baby afraid of the rat?
deenotheman2 8 months ago
@ererye what a mean thing to say !
lovedog49507 8 months ago
poor baby
lovedog49507 8 months ago
This is just unethical!!!
secretcode2601 9 months ago
No, Little Albert was not a orphan, we now know his identity. Unfortunately, he was a child who died of water on the brain! What difference does this make know? John Watson was a genius!
remfanbeforu 9 months ago
aaaaaaaaaaa the good old days..............
child and womens rights....WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!
IRANisPERSIA1 9 months ago
@IRANisPERSIA1 you were a child once.. how would u feel if someone had input on you random fears with which you would have to live the rest of your life?
Pagzis 8 months ago
Albert died aged 6 of an infection, His real name was Douglas, His mother worked as a nurse and was paid a dollar day for the experiments in the 1920's hence the footage. Check out "The Brain, A secret history" BBC documentary if your interested.
jonj14725 10 months ago 2
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rpp2903 4 months ago
fuck you motherfucker - thats torture . if i saw you id shove a rat so far up ur ase u wud have a fear of em. PRICK!
etegg11 10 months ago
Little Albert moved out of the city ..... And no know where he went
KingDcome11 10 months ago 2
I heard that no one ever knew what became of little albert
Miikaika25 10 months ago
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FiRePrOoF502 10 months ago
My Psychology Proffesor told the class that Albert while growing up was fearful of many small, furry white things, even santa clauses beard. but through treatment was able to extinct his conditioning and not be afraid anymore.
CaLLMehDOC 10 months ago
@CaLLMehDOC I am glad you brought up this point. I personaly see where all the different stages of developement play a role and how different tHEORIES from psychonalytic (Freud) all the way up to and including Hollands Personality Theory of Career Satisfaction influence our developement. I tend to be more of a subcriber of Eclectic/Composite schools of thought with emphisis on Cognative Theories such as Piaget.
In relation to this exact experiment and theory, the fear is built and conditioned
MrsKittyInAction 10 months ago
@MrsKittyInAction Oh intresting how bout you go fuck off?
CaLLMehDOC 10 months ago
@CaLLMehDOC Wow...lol Trolling much? I am just sayin.....lol
MrsKittyInAction 10 months ago
@MrsKittyInAction You are "SAYING" "LAUGHING ou loud" :D
Ichbineinschwein1 10 months ago
Why people back then look scary especially the children?
s3dooooooooooooooon 10 months ago
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Flummucksable 10 months ago
anyone know what happened to little Albert?
BergR1 10 months ago
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@BergR1 He died when he was 6(ish) of TB, I think. His mother, who apparently was not aware of this happening, took him away before he was desensitised. So we can assume that he was still fearful of furry things, unless he became desensitised through growing up, but this is probs unlikely.
Flummucksable 10 months ago
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Flummucksable 10 months ago
@BergR1 he was adopted.
str3ngth0nly1 10 months ago
@BergR1 He was adopted but later died (no relation to the experiment). However he was only manged to be able to be tracked down after he died so we don't know if he ever showed a phobia towards rats after this experiment.
DANNYBARE2 10 months ago
i saw this to be an excellent experiment!
katrinaprice10 10 months ago
I dont a\see what was so bad about it.... he made a baby cry
like they dont do that anyway
sarsfieldusmc 11 months ago
@sarsfieldusmc modern day people are overly sensitive and think everything will kill them. if you dont think so work in a public elementary school. the parents are the biggest hurdle in the child's life.
gymrat7847 11 months ago 16
@gymrat7847 Torment a kid just to prove a thesis... way to do science Mengele.
alvesrocha 5 months ago
@sarsfieldusmc research his entire experiment. This video is very biased.
str3ngth0nly1 10 months ago
Poor baby.
sweetgirlstonecol316 11 months ago
Weren't children treated worse by society at that point of time?
Watchdawg 11 months ago
makes me wonder what other experiments might have been conducted to find out if it was the noise itself that scared him and when furry objects were in his presence if he fear that certain noise to come... not the object itself. what a shotty experiment.
Pearl1576 11 months ago
We define torture today as causing mental or physical pain or suffering. Watson did none of this. He didn't burn the child with the fire and the rat didn't bite him. And I can guarantee that this child had absolutely no recollection that this event ever took place when he grew older or has any ill effects from hearing about it later in life.
MrJDCannon06 11 months ago 2
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Quidfreak91 11 months ago
@Quidfreak91 Actually, he became sick at the age of three and died when he was 6... Articles say that there were no effects on his life.
LadyAethria 11 months ago
@Quidfreak91 His life wasn't effected one bit. He died at the age of 6. You just made up everything you said.
killunoobs123 11 months ago
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gymrat7847 11 months ago
@MrJDCannon06 It doesn't show when he was using clown marks and monster masks. This went on for several minutes after the rat experiment, and of course little Albert was terrified of the scary masks.
It has been described as torture by several physiologists.
The little child died not long after the experiment.
machinehead5760 7 months ago 3
@machinehead5760 he didn't die because of the experiment though...
dchichan24 2 months ago
@MrJDCannon06 Just curious, how can you guarantee such a thing, if no one really knew what happened to Little Albert after the experiment, not even Watson himself. I am not saying he was terribly damaged by the experiment, but if you are going to guarantee something, I would like to see some evidence. I think people will be interested to know what happened to Albert and being that you are so privileged to know, then please enlighten us.
SuperMouseChan 7 months ago
@SuperMouseChan
The kid (actually named Douglas) died at the age of 6 of illness.
eeeeelseels 7 months ago
@eeeeelseels Not saying I don't believe you, but I'm a but of a skeptic of everything. Where can I find this information?
SuperMouseChan 7 months ago
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@SuperMouseChan
The kid (actually named Douglas) died at the age of 6 of illness.
eeeeelseels 7 months ago
@eeeeelseels im pretty sure his name was Albert Little, where did you find this information
the1princefrank 4 months ago
@the1princefrank Saw it on a BBC documentory. But you can find it easily with google.
eeeeelseels 4 months ago
The effects of Albert's conditioning of fear with furry objects would become extinct years later. Unless someone were to continually recondition him. The kid was fine.
nba1341 1 year ago
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Makadonska27 1 year ago
Little Albert never got deconditioned because he 'disappeared'. He supposedly died from a childhood disease around the ages of 6 - 9.
Remember this is 1920, ethics were unheard of those days, which is obvious from this film.
bex194 1 year ago
@bex194 Precious little ethics in psychiatry today either. I live with a psychiatrist and she is one of the few who is neither misguided nor sold out and the first to admit that her proffesion is in crisis.
Makadonska27 1 year ago
If expriments on humans like this was allowed now days, we would know so much more about ourselves... I wish it wasnt concidered unethical..
SpitfireFang 1 year ago
@SpitfireFang Yeah, but what kind of world would that be?
callumrocksyoursocks 1 year ago
@SpitfireFang ye but I bet you wish it was unethical if they were experimenting on you in horrible ways...
graveey 1 year ago
@SpitfireFang Many of the greatest discoveries in psychiatry were made by the nazi's. They really managed to take it to a whole new level and many of the discoveries they made are the basis of modern psychiatry. Personally although I am closely involved with a qualified psychiatrist (not professionally I am glad to say lol)I have still never seen a scrap of evidence that this so called profession has ever provided mankind with anywhere as much tangible benefit as has been done real harm.
Makadonska27 1 year ago
He died at the age of six. Poor fella
bassjoeri 1 year ago
Although by today's standards (And my own) the treatment of Albert was unethical. But you have to consider the positive repercussions, because of Watson's thesis: "babies being a product of their environment" many parents have taken a more ethical stance but in the same direction. Without even knowing of Locke's Tabula Rasa or Watson's Little Albert experiment. Many parents will say you have to teach kids the difference between "good and bad" so I'd say it's effects had some positive impact.
HugoTheMonkey 1 year ago
@HugoTheMonkey Are you saying parents did not know before then that their job was to teach their children morality and the concept of wrong and wrong. I am incredulous. Like much about psychiatry. Common sense is packaged up as a discovery and people are resold what they already knew as if it is new hard won knowledge.
Makadonska27 1 year ago
awww.. i wonder what happened to hiM!!
halkiphulkiben 1 year ago
I wish we could still do experiments like this nowadays.
ProfessorGhabouris 1 year ago
@ProfessorGhabouris Dude that baby was permanently fucked up with phobias of so many animals . . . Experiments like that aren't done anymore for a good reason.
gameyD92 1 year ago 4
@gameyD92 Sometimes the cost of science is worth it.
ProfessorGhabouris 1 year ago
@gameyD92 Totally agree.
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stantonray123 8 months ago
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@gameyD92 Actually little Albert was just fine. The great thing about Pavlovian conditioning is the extinction of these conditioned responses happens when the object, in this case furry animals, is no longer associated with the loud noise or negative reinforcement
stantonray123 8 months ago
@gameyD92 Not exactly. It wouldve been so if the stimulus continued, but it didnt. The conditioned reflex dissapears once it is realized that it isnt the same as a the aversive stimulus.
JohnRobertPosey 8 months ago
@gameyD92
Experiments like this do still happen... They just use animals instead.
Mluggd 6 months ago
@ProfessorGhabouris Sounds like you should volunteer, you clearly really need a psychiatrist.
Makadonska27 1 year ago
@Makadonska27 ah man. You see, I would volunteer but we can't do this anymore. Thats my point.
ProfessorGhabouris 1 year ago
aww thats a shame poor baby. wot happend 2 the baby
fatpinkteddy 1 year ago
@fatpinkteddy His real name was Douglas Merritte but sadly he died young at age 6
Nillzone503 1 year ago
hooooooow interesting
bennyboy814 1 year ago
ode to orphans
DeathMythos 1 year ago
Yeah I'd be scared as shit too if some creepy old guy was getting up in my grill with a bunny mask on. Little Albert was probably the second shooter on the grassy knoll or something
Uber12 1 year ago 2
Thats so cruel.
starrish 1 year ago 24
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gymrat7847 11 months ago
@starrish He's 8 months old, he wont remember it next week. + The only long term things is that he's scared of rats? Oh no.. end of the world for him.
angusthemint 7 months ago
@angusthemint He's going to grow up with this development and not even understand it. And obviously it will stay with him forever, unless it reversed somehow. Its not the end of the world but no one deserves this.
starrish 7 months ago
@starrish easy to reverse a clasically conditioned fear now'a days. However very true no one deserves it, still its not that cruel
angusthemint 7 months ago
@angusthemint well its still cruel. No need to bash a sentimental girl here.
starrish 7 months ago
@angusthemint yes he will cause this baby was grown up and is still afraid of a white teddy bear^^
I did a whole presentation about J.B. Watson
:)
bryanivich 7 months ago
@bryanivich he was happy to undo the phobias. It was his main care givers fault for refusing and removing "Little Albert" from the study before J. Watson got a chance
the1princefrank 4 months ago
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Does anynone know where can i find a clearer video without subtitles?
Also do you think the video really shows the child is afraid - perhaps just tired of animals being put in front of it??
HackettSimone 1 year ago
Does anynone know where can i find a clearer video without subtitles?
Also do you think the video really shows the child is afraid - perhaps just tired of animals being put in front of it??
HackettSimone 1 year ago
@HackettSimone both. frightened and tired.
beccahday 1 year ago
I wonder... if Watson never got a hold of Little Albert as a subject, would he have ever used his own children? Just a thought.
BladesOfMunch 1 year ago 3
that is one crumbled up little cookie! wonder what ever happened to "Little Albert" how much therapy did he end up needing. cruel. but then again would we know about behavior conditioning without this experiment? Does that make it ethical? does it make it ethical to use this information? can we use information gained by the nazi's after they're experimentation in the concentration camps? some say what is done is done. hmmmmm, i will have to ponder this idea more fully.
hippibillie 1 year ago
that is one crumbled up little cookie! wonder what ever happened to "Little Albert" how much therapy did he end up needing. cruel. but then again would we know about behavior conditioning without this experiment? Does that make it ethical? does it make it ethical to use this information? can we use information gained by the nazi's after they're experimentation in the concentration camps? some say what is done is done. hmmmmm, i will have to ponder this idea more fully.
hippibillie 1 year ago
the experiment is clearly unethical thats why its not done anymore....Watson was suppose to take his fear away after the experiment but little Albert and his family had moved away. :/
MoNa2590 1 year ago 3
@MoNa2590 you can never truly take away the fear, it still remains, just counter sprung in therapeutic methods.
funkyfresh63 1 year ago
I was wondering if the hydrocephalus which killed Douglas had any association to the experiement or there was no relation...anyone knows?
TomluvJay 1 year ago
@TomluvJay Hi thats intersting I have Hydrocephalus and was born with it although it did not cause problems until I was about 5. I imagine it was probably something he was also born with as he was so young unless he suffered from an unknown head injury or tumor which can often cause hydrocephalus in adults. I assume the tests really didn't help him. It would be intersting to see if the results would have been the same as the child not had hydrocephalus?
flyingdamingo 1 year ago
Watson is awesome <3 I agree with a lot of his ideas.
ashantifan1224 1 year ago
Little Albert was the son of a wetnurse who worked at the hospital Watson and Reyner looked for candidates. He did die at a young age from fluid on the brain, commonly known as water head. His mother did not suddenly pull the plug on the experiment and whisk Albert away, both Watson and Reyner knew Albert would be leaving in a month's time and made no effort to decondition him. As a psychology major in a Master's program I know what I am talking about. Get your facts straight people!
cncstory 1 year ago
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cncstory 1 year ago
this is fucking sad
Intergalactiic 1 year ago
@Intergalactiic lulz
klsjafksjdfklsdfjkls 1 year ago
it's amazing what the brain can do.
but if the albert was taught to fear the rat and those objects, then can he be taught to not fear them again?
cheeseandbeanz 1 year ago
@cheeseandbeanz He never got the chance to figure out because he never saw him again...but albert died when he was 6 if it made a difference...
polostick101 1 year ago
Watson MAPARIDO
incondicional80 1 year ago
none of you know what you are talking about. John Watson was doing experiments about behaviorism. Seeing if a child from a small age can be taught to be scared of something based off of fear. Your mothers probably did the same thing with a candle. "Let him burn himself once. He will learn". I know now a days it is known that someone will learn this way. When Watson did these experiments in the 1800's it wasn't known. He was the first. Oh and no phoenixreal that isn't true. Albert was an orphan
ISurvived666 1 year ago 10
@ISurvived666 Close, but not quite. Much like Pavlov's dogs, Watson was attempting to prove the existence of stimulus and response in learning. "Seeing if a child from a small age can be taught to be scared of something based off of fear," is perhaps poorly worded. He was seeing if a child could be conditioned to fear a thing without the thing itself being the cause, in which he succeeded.
kyew69 1 year ago
@ISurvived666 hey I have two questions that eliminate all crediblity of Watsons intentions. Did watson uncondition Albert? Also did you know what Watson did personally with his results? If you know the answer to that question then you will understand why Watson was not the great psychologist you may believe him to be.
str3ngth0nly1 10 months ago
@str3ngth0nly1 His mother pulled him out of the experiment before they could uncondition him. Little Albert B died at the age of six in 1925 of hydrocephalus. Pavlov and Watson's experiments have been a great help in the science of psychology. Wikipedia has an entire page about this experiment and little Albert. He is buried in the cemetery of the Locust Grove Church of the Brethren in Mt. Airy, Maryland.
anniemarie19 10 months ago
@ISurvived666 he wasnt an orphan his mother pulled him from the experiments
rctriplefresh5 10 months ago
@ISurvived666 I agree with you, except albert wasent an orphan. He just stayed there every day scence Alberts mom was a wet nurse trhere.
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