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The Science and Ethics of the Little Albert Experiment

The success of Ivan Pavlov in conditioning physiological responses in dogs captured the attention of the psychological community. This happened at the turn of the 20th century. But the father of behaviourism, John B. Watson, attempted to demonstrate that human emotions were equally malleable. In 1920, Watson and his graduate student Rosalie Rayner performed an

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Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning was proposed by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He studied classical conditioning through detailed experiments with dogs and published the experimental results in 1897. So, he described classical conditioning as a learning process where pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus triggers a response. Gradually, the neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus

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