The Case of Little Albert

[Paul Mackin]

On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Murthy Yenamandra wrote:

> I've been reading _The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the
> Bicameral Mind_ by Julian Jaynes and came across the famous case of
> "Little Albert" - an early experiment (1920s) in conditioning of fear in
> infants by the psychologist J. B. Watson (father of behaviorism in the
> US).  I've never seen this mentioned on the list before, so I hope it's
> not old news to most of you.  Here is a description of the experiment,
> cribbed from the webpage http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/80337/6215m3f.htm:

It's what gave Dr. Lazlo Jamf the idea for Infant Tyrone--p. 84.

Somehow I'd had the erroneous impression it had been  Watson and Raynor's  
own child being experimented on. Glad to get this new info.

			P.