In the Watson and Rayner Study of Little Albert, the UR

question 204

Multiple Choice

In the Watson and Rayner study of Little Albert, the UR was ________ and the CR was ________.

• A) crying and crawling away; crying and crawling away
• B) the loud noise; the white rat
• C) crawling toward the rat and playing with it; crying and crawling away
• D) crying and crawling away; crawling toward the rat and playing with it

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Definitions:

Conservation of Volume

A cognitive development concept stating that a substance's volume remains unchanged even when its appearance changes, understood by children during the concrete operational stage according to Piaget.

Transitional Stage

A developmental phase where an individual moves from one significant stage to another, often involving substantial changes in behavior or role.

Piaget's Conservation Task

Piaget's Conservation Task is a cognitive exercise used by psychologist Jean Piaget to assess a child's ability to understand that quantities remain constant despite changes in shape or arrangement.

Reversibility

A mental operation in which a child realizes that one operation can be negated, or reversed, by the effects of another.