Little Albert

Watson and Rayners experiment did support their hypothesis. They conditioned him to be scared of objects because they made a loud noise everytime they showed him an object and he then became frightened of that object. Albert's response became generalized because everytime they showed him an object that they used when they made the noise, he became very scared and is now always scared of that object. They used classical conditioning to reduce Peter's fear of rabbits by pairing the rabbit with a pleasant stimulus everytime they showed him the rabbit so that he came to like rabbits.