In 1920, behaviorist John B. Watson and his student Rosalie Rayner conducted the Little Albert experiment, demonstrating that fear responses could be artificially induced in humans through classical conditioning by pairing a neutral stimulus (white rat) with a loud noise, but they failed to show how to safely reverse this conditioning, leaving the child with lasting trauma and raising significant ethical concerns about human subjects research.
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In 1920, Watson and his graduate student Rosalie Rener conducted the little Albert experiment to demonstrate this model. They successfully induced severe distressing fear in an 11-month-old infant. However, the child was removed from the hospital before any attempt at deconditioning could occur. Watson left the child with an artificially induced trauma, a breach of ethics that today would be prohibited by institutional review boards. Watson proved that emotional responses could be manufactured in a lab, but he failed to show how they could be safely reversed.
This left a critical question. If fear could be conditioned into a subject, could those same principles be used to remove it?
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