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    Theorists Piaget Jean Piaget was a Swiss biologist‚ philosopher‚ and psychologist best known for his work in the area of developmental psychology. Piaget’s focus was on the intellectual or cognitive development of children and on the way in which their mind’s processed and progressed in knowledge. Piaget’s central thesis was that children develop self-centric theories about their environment‚ and about objects or persons in that environment‚ and they grow that children base these theories on their

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    Learning and Conditioning Ivan Pavlov studied dogs‚ metronomes‚ salivation‚ and the discovery of the conditioned reflex nearly 100 years ago. Ivan will be remembered as the man who changed psychology by his experimentations with the salivation of dogs. Pavlov learned through experimentation of the unconditioned responses due to unconditioned stimuli and of the potential to condition responses from previous no stimuli. Pavlov performed his experiments at the Institute of Experimental Medicine

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    getting terrified! A more formal recap is as follows: In an effort to demonstrate whether or not emotional responses could be conditioned‚ Watson introduced a baby Albert (nine months) to various stimuli such as a white rat‚ a rabbit‚ dog‚ monkey and various textiles. The “training” involved having an assistant make a loud noise out of Albert’s view and then Watson would record his reaction. When Albert just had the objects‚ he was a very

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    and anytime Albert touched the rat‚ he was exposed to the sound of the hammer hitting a steel bar. After seven trials‚ Albert cried and demonstrated avoidance on presentation of the rat—the conditioned stimulus—in the absence of the loud noise.”(Watson J. B.‚ & Rayner‚ R. (1920). Conditioned emotional reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology‚ 3(1)‚ 1–14.) Apparently‚ the baby boy had associated the white rat (original neutral stimulus‚ now conditioned stimulus) with the loud noise (unconditioned

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    A big theme in the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is the idea of psychology as a means to control the masses and by default society. Psychology is a very broad subject that covers many opinions and ideas. We’re going to cover five psychologists who come from either the psychoanalytic or behaviorist section of psychology. These theories and beliefs they have convey the messages and ideas of control‚ sleep teaching‚ and conditioning. These ideas and opinions helped shape several bits and pieces

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    paste the following line in a Google search: Watson J. B.‚ & Rayner‚ R. (1920). Conditioned emotional reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology‚ 3(1)‚ 1–14. Read the article and answer the following questions in your essay: Explain the initial pairing of the banging bar and the rat in terms of learning through classical conditioning. What is unconditioned stimulus (US)‚ conditioned stimulus (CS)‚ and conditioned response (CR)? How were Watson and Rayner able to condition Albert to react

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    The Effects of the Little Albert Studies on Classical Conditioning Classical conditioning has been impacted by many studies. The Little Albert experiment which was done by Watson and Rayner in 1920 showed empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans. Although this case study is widely disputed in it’s methods‚ it added a world of knowledge to the field of psychology. This was a huge breakthrough for behavioral studies. Up until this time it was shown that classical conditioning was possible

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    afraid to touch the rat. Finally they introduced just the rat (conditioned stimulus) without the loud banging still caused fear (conditioned response) in Albert. How were Watson and Rayner able to condition Albert to react to different stimuli such as masks‚ other animals‚ and a fur coat? Explain the concept of generalization. Watson and Rayner were able to condition Albert by introducing other objects which were similar in nature to the white rat. The rabbit that was brought in was white‚ the mask

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    stimulus. They assume that what we do is determined by the environment we are in‚ which provides stimuli to which we respond‚ and the environments we have been in in the past‚ which caused us to learn to respond to stimuli in particular ways. John Broadus Watson revolutionised psychology and established behaviourism. He states the ‘consciousness’ could not be seen or meaningfully defined and therefore should not be studied. He claimed behaviour could be shaped and manipulated‚ in 1930‚ he famously said

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    conditioned response (Walker‚ 2017). According to Pavlov‚ the dogs were demonstrating classical conditioning with the bell acting as the neutral stimuli‚ the unconditioned stimuli was food while the unconditioned response was salivating. Similarly‚ John Watson an American psychologist conducted an experiment on Little Albert to prove that conditioning also happens in human. In his study‚ he showed the 9 months old‚ several

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