John B. Watson

Explain (in detail) how Watson's "Little Albert" study was conducted.

Watson put in his experiment a baby called Little Albert. He showed a white rat to Little Albert and afterward slammed two metal pipes together behind Little Albert’s head. This occasioned to Little Albert cry because the metal pipes made a loud noise. Watson continued smashing the metal pipes, Little Albert cried when the white rat was around him. So the fear generalized because Little Albert became afraid of people or animals with white beards and hair.




Identify the conditioned stimulus, the unconditioned stimulus and the conditioned response from Watson's study.

The conditioned stimulus was the white rat, unconditioned Stimulus was the loud noise, the conditioned response was the fear little Albert had.




Explain at least two limitations of this study.

• This was unethical
• He only used a baby

Explain Watson's law of frequency.

The law of frequency states that when 2 things or events are connected, the stronger will be that association.




Explain Watson's law of recency.

Watson’s law of recency states that responds occur immediately after the stimulus.





Explain the basic assumptions of behaviorism according to Watson.

John Watson says everything basically depends on the environment.