John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the ..... in their study.

BIOLOGY COGNITION AND LEARNING

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John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the ____ in their study.

A	discriminative stimulus
B	conditioned stimulus
C	unconditioned stimulus
D	extinguished stimulus

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -This process is known as generalization. The Little Albert Experiment demonstrated that classical conditioning could be used to create a phobia. A phobia is an irrational fear, that is out of proportion to the danger. In this experiment, a previously unafraid baby was conditioned to become afraid of a rat.

Detailed explanation-2: -The loud sound was the unconditioned stimulus in this experiment. Little Albert was already afraid of the sound. Conditioning did not need to occur for him to have a negative reaction to it. Crying can be counted as both the unconditioned response the and conditioned response.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Little Albert experiment demonstrated that classical conditioning (the association of a particular stimulus or behavior with an unrelated stimulus or behavior) works in human beings.

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