I said:
> I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer, in dank and
> dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And
> not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
>
And Chris Green responded:
>
> Oh come on, Stephen. I've lived in Lennoxville (you may r
>> I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer, in dank and
>> dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And
>> not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
>>
>>
Oh come on, Stephen. I've lived in Lennoxville (you may recall). It's
not THAT bad, even in December. :-)
Ch
e essay reading.)
;-)
Annette
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>Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:14:08 -0500
>From: sbl...@ubishops.ca
>Subject: Re: [tips]
Stephen: I have a few speculations to consider.Was Albert from the South?
Did the people involved in the study from
execution to write up Southerners or had a Southern bent? Could Albert's
parents refer to him as 'Li'l Albert
which was later changed to "Little"?
There is a video of American to
I continue my lonely toil in seach of an answer, in dank and
dreary dungeons, amid flickering candles and moldy tomes. And
not a cask of Amontillado to spur me on.
On my last attempt I nominated Daniel (1944) as the earliest
adopter of the term "Little Albert" to describe Watson's stolid
subj
In answer to Michael Britt's question, we have a candidate (two,
actually).
The earliest use of the phrase "Little Albert" in relation to
Watson's experiment that I could find by database searching is
this one:
Daniel, W.J. (1944). Conditioning a systematic searching
response. The Journal of
���Ken Steele writes:
>Here is the next to last paragraph of Watson & Rayner
>"The Freudians twenty years from now, unless their hypotheses change,
>when they come to analyze Albert's fear of a seal skin coat - assuming
>that he comes to analysis at that age - will probably tease from him
the
>re
Is it because "Fat Albert" (see Bill Cosby) was already taken? >:-}
Peter Kepros
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB E3B 2B2
Canada
At 09:56 AM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
>I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's
>recent article, "Finding Little Albert" whi
My assumption was that the name was a reference to the case of
Little Hans, also. Note that the Watson & Rayner (1920) article
ends with a discussion of how a Freudian would try to explain
Albert's fear as coming from a sexual event.
Here is the next to last paragraph of Watson & Rayner --
"
It was interesting - and sad - reading the information about the child
(actually named Douglas Merritte). I always thought his head seemed quite
large for his body, and sure enough, it's reported that he died of
hydrocephalus when he was about 5.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State U
Michael - I'll leave that interesting question to the historians on this
listserv, but I'll advance one hypothesis (maybe others can confirm or refute):
Perhaps Watson was trying to counterpose his case against Freud's Little Hans
case of a phobia supposedly acquired through psychoanalytic mecha
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