Procedure

• 6 sessions
• Observation was recorded via a movie camera
• Baseline data - before sessions

  • Emotional tests

  Albert presented with variety of objects: and then bar was struck (unconditioned stimuli)

  • Rabbit
  • White rat
  • Burning newspaper
  • Monkey

  findings:

  • No fear of objects
  • When bar struck: arms up and trembled
  • 2nd time: fell forward and cried
• Session 1:

  • Creating a conditioned response (11 months 3 days)
  • In a laboratory and presented with the white rat, initially showing no fear.
  • After being presented a second time, a bar was struck with a hammer creating a loud noise
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  findings:

  • jumped fell forward but didnt cry
  • 2nd time: fell forward and cried
• Session 2:

  • Testing the conditioned emotional response (11 months 10 days)
  • Shown rat with no sound to see affects on behaviour
  • After this exposed 5 times to joint stimulation of the rat and loud noise

  findings:

  • Did not reach for rat - showed fear
  • Cautious furry objects
  • Moved when dog came near
• Session 3:

  • Generalisation (11 months, 15 days)
  • Presented with rat, wooden blocks, rabbit and cotton wool to see if response was generalised

  findings

  • Blocks: played
  • Dog: not as bad
  • Rabbit: Leaned away and cried
  • Fur coat: Cried, crawled away
• Session 4

  • Changing the environment (11 months 20 days)
  • Large well lit lecture room with 4 people and Albert was placed in centre
  • Joint stimulation

  findings:

  • Less exetreme responses
  • Happily play with blocks
  • Persisted against furry objects
• Session 5:

  • Effect of time (12 months and 21 days)
  • Tested for last time with all elements

  findings:

  • Occasionally cried, whimpered, response to furry objects was more extreme than control
• Areas Albert was tested on

  • Emotional test
  • Creating conditioned response
  • Testing response
  • Generalisation
  • Changing environment
  • Effect of time