In His Experiment with Little Albert,one of John Watson's Goals

question 261

Multiple Choice

In his experiment with Little Albert,one of John Watson's goals was to show that:

• A)humans,unlike other animals,are not susceptible to classic conditioning.
• B)fear can be learned by means of classical conditioning.
• C)conditioning can produce only behavioural responses,not emotional ones.
• D)one's environment is not responsible for behaviour.

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Definitions:

Latent Function

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Hidden Curriculum

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