John Watson - Pequeno Albert (legendado)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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John Watson = Josef Mengele