John Watson - Pequeno Albert (1)

[Minxomnia]

Ahh, stop saying monkey...................

[TheAkashimaru]

hahahaha! xD

[MattLem922]

Thanks for blowing out my speakers... Flippin Heck. Turn the freaking music down, bro.

[TheDonTreadonme]

And Albert grew up to be terrified of everything.

[chuddle09]

albert wasn't an orphan...

[Thedemonsxxx]

maltrato animal y de niños, animal abuse and child

[PrimusSheck]

Jesus Christ my ears.

[Janisse1023]

I had to watch this video on mute...

[DianaAlexieva]

@Janisse1023 there are no "thumbs" options, that's why I have to say it - thumbs up ;D

[translipcorsia]

Hahahaha Science has never been so god damn funny!

[mintedllama]

The guy narrating is conditioning people to commit suicide at the sound of his voice. Poor Albert didn't make it to 7, if he were alive to see this youtube video, he would have probably offed himself.

[sparticaldidit]

@mintedllama I concur

[XNo1XLuvzXMeX]

Strange :S

[MrDJMassacre]

Our professor showed this video to us today in psych class, and I practically died laughing at the guy talking in the video. It was bad.

[Qegixar]

Did anyone stop to consider that the baby was afraid of the man conducting the experiment and not the objects? A black pillow is not much like a small white rat, but both of them had the same creepy guy sticking them in the baby's face. I would bet money that if someone not associated with the experiment showed the baby a pillow, it would not be afraid.

[randomguy0909]

@Qegixar It was a furry coat.. But it could be a correlation is not causation affect

[itsybitsy37]

Little Albert - real footage

Teaching fear - classical conditioning

[Neoguest]

Albert was 9 month old, he had no memory of what has happen.

[carlabonesso]

Poor little Albert... everybody thinks in Watson like a a bad guy here, but how manny ignorant parents and grandmothers and fathers conditioned fear into their children every fucking day creating adults with emotional problems !

[NaturallyMe91]

lol wow ur wut 40 yrs old n acting like ur 2?? Grow up kid

[skamilf]

poor baby. hopefully his conditioned responses extincted.

[petasoman]

the person talking is annoying......very irksome...lol

[ooxandrexo]

hahahaha this video made me laugh so much. What a great way to remember lil Albert.

[corner53000]

what is the matter with this "scientist" play with a child just to satisfy his ego

[CohanDigitmatta]

the narrator is a fucking dickhead, lol

[kvn8907]

Why did you disable the ratings?

[skytta]

@beth3307 Where is this 1950s interview to which you're referring? Just as people previously stated, it was only a year ago that they tracked down his identity and he had died at age 6 due to hydrocephalus. Watson was fired for the affair, not failure to extinguish. This was pre-ethics.

[beth3307]

he wasnt an orphan, and he didn't die at the age of 6, because there was an interview with him when he was 30, and he claims to rememeber nothing of the study

[ryokossei]

Interesting video, but your description is wrong. Baby Albert was actually the son of a wet nurse at the university hospital, and she moved away (along with her baby...of course) before Watson could uncondition Albert. Psycholgy's been pretty obsessed with what happened to Albert throughout his life.... turns out he died.... which was pretty damn depressing to learn about in the middle of my History o' Psych class....

[Fee1043]

wow. our psychology class should be just like that vid. :D:D:D:D.

[30stmx3]

i actually know the person who did the voiceover for this xD

[xkKatyKinsx]

wtf is with the voiceover on this :|

[breedsm]

Baby Albert died of hydrocephalus at age 6:

Beck, H. P., Levinson, S., & Irons, G. (2009). Finding Little Albert: A journey to John B. Watson's infant laboratory. American Psychologist, 64, 7. pp. 605-614.

[shaq2004]

turn the volume down

[charnewmoon]

poor baby

[brokenmirror7]

ugh does anyone know where to find the same footage without this idiot commenting as if he were funny?

[zebendyone]

Agree. The only one I could find has like Portuguese subtitles or something.

[Marretin]

cant you get this video in original somewhere without retards like him editing and fucking it up?

[twipley]

that is a nice video.

[trint2004]

ok the high pitched voice was a lil much

[ChickEPZFans]

The Watson &Rainer study is often misdescribed. The pet animal was a rabbit, not a rat.  Albert was in an orphanage.. Sometime after this rather hideous experiment was undertaken, it occurred to Watson and Rainer to go back and decondition the child, but when they showed up he was gone. We hope Albert got over the shock of having two pieces of metal smashed against each other just behind his ear as soon as his pet rabbit was introduced to the scene.

[DaisyJMoore]

He wasn't adopted, he wasn't an orphan, his mother removed him from the experient after she realised how traumatised he may become.

[Mossbell]

Tru dat

[DaisyJMoore]

TY Mossbell.

[zebendyone]

Untrue. I have the study in front of me now. He was an orphan who grew up in a hospital and was adopted before he could be reconditioned.

[jerryfischman]

zebendyone, you may be looking at an older study,

see American Psychologist Oct 2009,

breedsm: correct, and he was not an orphan, nor was he adopted

[jerryfischman]

breedsm is correct

not an orphan either

see American Psychologist Oct 2009

[spectrophotography]

Volume issues man. I feel like I'm part of an experiment as well.

[benjamermandav]

Is Bob Saget doing the narration!?

[tertsiini]

lol the commentator ;D

[nicc271]

Lulz ... Poor baby albert =D Little fluffy animals are the greatest things ever D:

Either way, I still think radical behaviorism is a bit tooo ... Radical, which isn't exactly ethical, where's conscience?? ... NAywas ... Back to my essay.

[gitfiddle07]

While I understand that this is a widely noted experiment, to be honest I just dont see a frightened infant in this film. I see a typical one year old child that is getting aggravated because he wants to crawl...not play with animals. I think Watson rehashed an idea here, not introduced or proved one. Anyone training an animal in the 20s could explain the idea of classical conditioning.

[meohmy320]

no he was scared, he was crying and wanted to get away, but clearly could not. His aggravation and discomfort shows his dissociative behaviour from the first time he was presented with the animals(wanting to pet them etc). He was scared- which clearly breached a lot of codes of a psychology experiment.

[MazzingerZ7]

John Watson = Josef Mengele

[Hellza7891]

haha at first i thought u were just lame and taking the piss... lol but u actually explained it quite well... lol well done!! u actually got me laughing lol

[Hellza7891]

lmao... at first i was like... is this just someone taking the piss... haha but you actually explained it quite well... well done!

[DaCheckOutChick]

the woman's name is Rosalie Rayner, she helped John watson with this experiment.

[scrubs21]

I study psychology myself, to be honest im beginning to see it as a bit of a dead end. I think it's very interesting and many branches of psychology are relevant to real life. I think the complete paranoia and over control of ethics has completely restricted psychologists ability to produce relevant and interesting results, i.e zimbardo's prison experiment and milgrams study of obedience broke pretty much every ethical guideline but the results produced are still relevant and learn about today.

[drunkmanmick]

i KNOW!! he was not adopted!!! it could be watson's colleague in the video, nevertheless alberts mother did know about the experiment.

[daron19986]

interesting but disgusting, no baby schould be treaten like Albert!

[missdolphinlover]

a major lol... and i actually learnt something.. best way to revise!!!

[nieckq]

wtf this was messed up.. 'ahh the rat..aahhhh' what the hell

[reneesme5]

Povero Albert!!!!

[Truth6199]

Poor Lil Albert indeed, horrible to condition the boy to fear rabbits, then anything white. He must lead a traumatic life...very sad

[SyMoHXD]

WATSON IN GALERA.

[gummiberryjuice]

little albert killed 6 people on a rampage at about 19 years old, then was rehabilitated & went on 2 lead a normal life, cant imagine any1 gettin away with an unethical experiment like that nowadays

youtubes alot more of an interestin way 2 revise! great vid! luv the voice overs! x

[kennymilk]

That poor kid probably grew up afraid of Santa Claus... ._.

[zaydah09]

its rather scary that they don't know what happened to him... lol. I'd be concerned and not let him be adopted till they could recondition him.

[leev3]

I really love what Albert is telling us :D.

[KrazyDukMan]

LMFAO...this reminds me of my undergraduate psych days, smoking pot and watching stupid shit like this...hilarious!

[betoonatiuh]

o si, en mexico tambien llevamos condicionamiento clasico, y es genial la voz del pequeño albert.

XD

[thehope2514]

i was sitting in psych class early one day when my friend and i heard the albert imitation voice. we just stared at our teacher. it was hilarious. now "play with me i'm an orphan" is our all time favorite quote.

[onacoli10]

poor lil albert,

[imtherealK0NG0]

grammar*

[lekythos]

The "old looking footage" in the middle is from a film made by Watson and Raynor, depicted in the clip, likely around 1920. The film was made for teaching purposes after the experiment was over which is why Albert appears to be older than 9 months. Watson had intended to extinguish the conditioned fear but was interrupted by Albert's mother before he could do so. As for the rest, it an obvious is clever fraud, perhaps perpetrated by someone who dislikes Watson as suggested by Ickkyping.

[pinkerchaos]

hahaha...nice voice for baby albert

[KingOfComments]

no.

[mterin1990]

Ive just been studying this in psychology...that's the worst experiment Ive ever seen, they were to rough with Albert and the animals if there was a ethics committee back then they would have been sued. Kinda wish they had been after seeing that. The textbooks don't list that kind of stuff

[Kinematics001]

I really pity the baby. He may still feel the effects of this classical conditioning in his later years of his life. He'll not be able to lead a normal life having phobia of anything thats fluffy. I hope something was done to take away his fears. I hope he'll be okay.

[Bubelhaftisch]

This experiment was done in the 1920's ... whatever's happened to 'Little Albert', it happened years ago.

They never actually found out what happened to him afterwards.

[gummiberryjuice]

little albert went on a rampage when a car backfired, & killed 6 people when he was about 19, THEN he was rehabilitated. poor guy, how unethical, its amazin how much the laws hav changed since the 20's! x

[feelee15]

unconditioned not unconditional

[VegaCoyote]

Albert wasn't an orphan... he was the child of an unwed mother who was employed at that hospital as a wet-nurse. Since the social standing of an unwed mother at the time was slightly above that of dirt, the experimenters could more or less do what they wanted to the kids that these unwed wetnurses left in daycare while the mothers went off to feed other peoples' babies, for which they would be paid- think they got room/board at the institute, too. and their own babies got whatever milk was left.

[hellpmoto]

Albert was a nine month old orphan. I am in my last year of Psychology,and did tons of work on Watson and little albert.

[hellpmoto]

Albert was an orphan, he was also nine months.

[hyperhazard88]

it's JOHNS Hopkins

[berkfeedme]

You fool. Stop talking!

You are ill informed and so horrendously abhorrent.

Your voice makes me cringe.

[Schmidit]

the narrator really needs to shut up. Its only funny the first 10 seconds but then it gets really old and annoying. Plus his facts about Albert are wrong. Albert was not an orphan.

[YTubeMoralAction]

Agree. The commentary is annoying and not funny at all!.

[LodemaiT]

It's not supposed to be funny, it's supposed to be helpfull for those who are studying psychology. For those who find it more interesting and fascinating reather than funny.

[boredtodeath88]

i agree with you

[nessamorgoth]

Porque os quejais de lo que le hacen al ''pobre'' albert y no de lo que hacen con los animales?

[chickensun88]

this video is terrible the guy does not have his facts staright an dis just taking the piss

[damax53]

1. No one is in any position to judge this 80 years after the fact.

2. Albert didn't make the association between the rat and the loud noise, Watson did! To associate means to join together. It was Watson, not Albert, who joined the rat and the noise together (in time).

3. The efficacy of classical conditioning in humans has been demonstrated thousands of times since, so regardless of the experimental validity of Watson's demonstration, he basically had it right.

[morrison3444]

Dont worry people, theres no way on earth that his conditioning became resistant to extinction or became a "phobia". It takes more than that. And this may be a milestone in pych. but you can't call it an experiment. Watson really stretched the truth about it. And the unethical part is that he knew her mother was going to get Albert back a month later(no he wasnt an orphan) he kept conditioning him till the last day and did nothing to reverse it, even though he thought he developed a phobia.

[sarnik85]

povero albert

[Fudgy90]

wth poor albert? poor dog! thats animal abuse!

[DJKVesper]

<_<. That voice is so funny.

I want all babies to talk like that.

But poor babie, scared for life.

[schumaks]

LOVED THIS!!!

[connorqt]

I can see that this style of learing is effective, and I can also appreciate the importance of the experiment, however, so unethical. I guess this was the 1920's. I cant help wonder what became of "big albert" with his fear of all things furry! Sad.

[sparking321]

Albert wasnt an orphan, he got stolen from a mother

[silkumbrellas]

Albert wasn't an orphan...

[MiaSisyphus]

dude i watched this in my psych class today.

poor baby, though...

[kensheree]

poor lil albert

[maryrockjane5]

hey i just wanted to tell you we watched this today in my 12th grade sociology class.. so funny!

[turkankara]

I wonder in what way Albert's psychology were influenced from this experiment in future life. I think this was completely unethical situation.

[arachnocrat]

I agree with you, however I recall unnecessary to think about that right now.

[nik45678]

This is a hilarious overview of Little Albert. It includes actual Classical Conditioning terms, which makes it a learning experience as well as entertaining. I've shown it to (college) students, and it leaves a memorable impression that could help people learn about conditioning.