There was an American Psychologist article a few years back entitled "What
really happenned to Little Albert" which documents numerous misconceptions
about the experiment - many of which are reported in leading psychology
texts.
I can't remember all the details, and I don't have the reference handy,
but the general message was "be wary of what you read in gen psych
texts..."
-- Jim Dougan
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Dr. Joyce Johnson wrote:
> The students told me that their Weiten text says that Watson & Raynor did
> not reverse the CER with Little Albert, that they lost track of him and
> never knew what happened to the little guy. I had heard that they reversed
> the effect by having an assistant hold a white rabbit and pet it in another
> room, and gradually moved closet to Albert until he petted it. Fact or
> fiction? What REALLY happened?
> Dr. Joyce Johnson
> Assistant Professor of Psychology
> Developmental/ Experimental
> Centenary College of Louisiana
> Shreveport, LA
>
