After Watson and Rayner established conditioned fear in Little Albert, they found that
a. his fear generalized to other furry objects.
b. he had developed strong masochistic tendencies.
c. it was fairly easy to remove the experimentally conditioned fear.
d. he had only been pretending to be afraid.
Answer: a. his fear generalized to other furry objects.
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