Ethical Research: Little Albert By John Watson

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An example of a popular unethical research was one named Little Albert in 1920. John Watson, was the behaviorist psychologist who was conducting the research. His whole purpose was to use orphans in his experiments by proving if fear was innate or a conditioned. Little Albert was then exposed to white things and animals such as a monkey, a rat, a rabbit, a mask with and without hair, cotton wool, burning newspaper and other things without conditioning for two months. Anytime Little Albert tried to play with the white rat Watson would punish him by striking a steel hammer. As a response Little Albert became very frightened, the symbol of a white rat interfered and caused distress. The effect of this experiment was that anytime little albert

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