John Watson is known for the Little Albert experiments in which a phobia was created in a child by banging loud objects behind the child when he interacted with a variety of white, fluffy animals. The results of these experiments influenced which area of psychology?

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Maci Howe

25 July, 06:33

John Watson is known for the Little Albert experiments in which a phobia was created in a child by banging loud objects behind the child when he interacted with a variety of white, fluffy animals. The results of these experiments influenced which area of psychology?

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Angelina Cowan · Answer 1

The results of these experiments influenced classical conditioning of psychology.

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Classical conditioning analyze animal's behavior with its behaviorism. Animal's behavior depends on the work of stimuli. Phobia is one type of mental scare in which animal always get afraid of something. Here loud objects behind the child banging when he interacted with a variety of white fluffy animals.

Classical conditioning is the area of psychology where stimuli's reaction and power of regeneration work in such a manner that behaviorism will affect the phobia pattern. Pavlov has studied all these things in a different psychological order.