Charles Harris wrote: > Stephen L. Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 14 Oct 2002 at 13:23, Christopher D. Green wrote: > > > >> I'm afraid you've confused two different studies. "Little Albert" > >> (actually, it was "Albert B.") was the topic of Watson and Rayner's 1920 > >> study on fear conditioning. "Little Peter" was a study on de-conditioning > >> fear published in 1924 by Mary Cover Jones. > > > > And to complete the trio (all together again for the first time!), > > "Little Hans" was the kid who dreamed someone took away his widdler > > ...also referred to as his little peter, compounding the confusion. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > --Charles > Charles S. Harris, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] > webmaster, The Nurture Assumption website: > http://home.att.net/~xchar/tna/ >
And, since Watson and Rayner, "...were prepared to present the fear-inducing white rat and stimulate Albert's genitals at the same time so as to attach pleasurable feelings to the rat.", (Barker, 2001) the Little Albert study was almost the little peter study, as suggested in the first post of this series. Barker, L. M. (2001). Learning and Behavior. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. -- __ Rick Stevens __ Psychology Department __ University of Louisiana at Monroe __ http://www.ulm.edu/~stevens E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
