Classical Condition Study: Jhon B. Watson

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In 1920, Jhon B. Watson conducted a Classical Condition study, that paired up a conditioned stimulus with an unconditional one. This type of conditioning can create a response in a person or animal that before previously neutral. For his research he used a nine month old baby he called Albert B. This experiment is considered unethical today because not only he developed a phobia in a baby that loved animal, also that baby never free those phobias that Watson created in him. First, I’m assuming the parents gave consent but a baby cannot do it himself, so that is wrong. How could Watson explain a little boy all the information relevant to the experiment. How can he also make it pleasant while aloud hammering metal noise would be part of the