Why Is Watson and Rayner's Famous Study Demonstrating the Learning

question 49

Multiple Choice

Why is Watson and Rayner's famous study demonstrating the learning of fear in a young boy unlikely to ever be repeated?

• A) Evolutionary psychology has given us an innate resistance to the fear of harmless animals.
• B) Behaviorism, which formed the basis of Watson and Rayner's theory, is no longer a viable psychological perspective.
• C) There are serious questions about the ethics of inducing fear in a child for research purposes.
• D) The child in the initial study was irreversibly damaged from the experiment, and Watson and Rayner recanted their own findings as a result of that damage.

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