What Were the Political, Social, Economic, And/or Cultural Consequences of This

question 80

Essay

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: the American Legion?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

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Definitions:

John B. Watson

An American psychologist who is considered one of the founders of behaviorism, emphasizing the study of observable behavior.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus used during the original conditioning.

Conditioned Fear

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with an aversive stimulus, leading to an anticipatory fear response.

Little Albert

An experiment conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner that demonstrated classical conditioning in humans, specifically showing how a child could be conditioned to fear a white rat.