The reason for Little Albert's fame in psychology is the fact that:
a. Watson showed that emotional responses could be classically conditioned in humans
b. Pavlov was unable to replicate his salivation procedure with Little Albert
c. Rescorla used the Little Albert experiment to disprove Pavlov
d. Carla learned not to fear the dentist through the example of this brave little boy
A
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a. right to refuse treatment b. least restrictive treatment c. ethics d. consentuality
To observe conditioning, one could ring a bell and squirt lemon juice into Johnny's mouth. By repeating this procedure several times, you could condition Johnny to salivate to the bell. Conditioning will be most rapid if the US follows immediately after the CS. In this example, the CS would be
a. the lemon juice. b. the bell. c. salivation to the bell. d. salivation to the lemon juice.
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