1.3.4 Evaluation Of Little Albert

Question 1

(Methodology and procedure) 1. what was a strength of the research method?

Answer 1

Controlled observation - controlled

Question 2

(Methodology and procedure) 1. EVs were controlled for, such as what?

Answer 2

Location
Lighting
Timing 
Objects
Sample

Question 3

(Methodology and procedure) 1. how was the sample controlled?

Answer 3

Albert selected for being an emotionally stable baby

Question 4

(Methodology and procedure) 1. the use of blocks was controlled it allowed the comparison of what?

Answer 4

Alberts responses to the objects he was presented with

Question 5

(Methodology and procedure) 1. Albert was also filmed allowing for what?

Answer 5

Observation of behaviour

Question 6

(Methodology and procedure) 1. The controls mean you can establish what?

Answer 6

Cause and effect relationship

Question 7

(Methodology and procedure) 2. What was a problem of the sample?

Answer 7

One child

Hard to generalise

Question 8

(Methodology and procedure) 2. What was Watson and Rayners intention? Why didn’t they do it?

Answer 8

To study multiple participants and compare

Dismissed from the university

Question 9

(Methodology and procedure) 2. Without comparisons we don’t know if the observed responses are what?

Answer 9

Unique to Albert or generalisable to others

Question 10

(Alternative evidence) 3. Why can the conclusion that phobias are learnt through conditioning be questioned?

Answer 10

Evolutionary explanations for phobias

Question 11

(Alternative evidence) 3. The biological preparedness theory argues we are genetically programmed to do what?

Answer 11

fear stimuli that would have been potentially dangerous in the EEA

Question 12

(Alternative evidence) 3. Hebb found monkeys were more likely to fear what than other test objects?

Answer 12

Model snakes

Question 13

(Alternative evidence) 3. Mineka raised monkeys having no experience of real snakes what did they do when presented with a model?

Answer 13

Showed moderate fear

When it moved their fear increased

Question 14

(Alternative evidence) 3. The monkeys didn’t show this response to what?

Answer 14

Other toys

Question 15

(Alternative evidence) 3. Findings suggest phobias can be what?

Answer 15

Nature - inbuilt

Question 16

(Alternative evidence) 3. But the research was conducted on monkeys meaning what?

Answer 16

We can’t generalise

Question 17

(Alternative evidence) 4. Not all phobias are preceded by what?

Answer 17

Conditioning episode/traumatic experience

Question 18

(Alternative evidence) 4. It may be the experience did occur but what?

Answer 18

Too young to remember it

Repression

Question 19

(Alternative evidence) 5. DiNardo - not all people having a traumatic incident do what?

Answer 19

Develop a phobia

So learning alone can’t explain phobias

Question 20

(Alternative evidence) 5. Watson and rayner would say only who would develop a phobia?

Answer 20

Those constitutionally inferior

Question 21

(Alternative evidence) 6. The two process theory says classical conditioning is not what?

Answer 21

Complete explanation for phobias

Question 22

(Alternative evidence) 6. If CC was involved in creating the phobia what might happen?

Answer 22

Disappear overtime

Question 23

(Alternative evidence) 6. In the little Albert study what happened when a gap was left between sessions?

Answer 23

Phobia lessened

Question 24

(Alternative evidence) 6. Meyers two process theory says classical conditioning is what?

Answer 24

How a phobia is developed first

Question 25

(Alternative evidence) 6. Myers two way theory says operant conditioning explains what?

Answer 25

The maintenance of the phobia

Avoiding the phobia removes anxiety (NR) so the phobic behaviour continues