John Watson Offered a Live, White Rat to Little Albert

question 112

Multiple Choice

John Watson offered a live, white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the __________ in his study.

• A) discriminative stimulus
• B) counterconditioning stimulus
• C) conditioned stimulus
• D) unconditioned stimulus

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Definitions:

Kansas Exodus

The mass migration of African Americans from the southern United States to Kansas following the Reconstruction era, seeking political and social freedom.

Underground Railroad

Operating in the decades before the Civil War, a clandestine system of routes and safehouses through which slaves were led to freedom in the North.

Disenfranchisement

Depriving a person or persons of the right to vote; in the United States, exclusionary policies were used to deny groups, especially African-Americans and women, their voting rights.