John B. Watson

In 1913, John B Watson a psychologist and his assistant Rosalie Rayner took an idea from Ivan Pavlov’s experiment which was the classical conditioning – a type of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes about naturally. The experiment was a demonstrating of the conditioning process in dogs. John and Rosalie decided to experiment this same demonstration on a little 9-month-old infant they called “Little Albert”. The demonstration became controversial and set the stage for behaviorism and which soon rose to dominate psychology.
The demonstration was to show the emotional reaction could be classically conditioned in people and can be used in emotional response. Watson believed that psychology should primarily be scientific observable
It has been one of psychology’s mysteries. Little Albert was unable to be located. Watson and Rayner also lost touch with him soon after because the mother shortly moved away after the experiment ended. There has been a identity of the boy known as Little Albert was discovered.
There was a report that a sever year search led the boy to be found by a psychologist Hall P. Beck. After locating the real mother of the experiment, it was suggested that Little Albert was named Douglas Merritte. Douglas had died at the young age of six on May 10, 1925 of hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in his brain.
Psychology views on behaviorist is purely objective and an experimental branch of natural science. Its goals are to predict and control behaviorism. To form no essential part of the methods and the scientific value of the data that can be interpreted in the terms of consciousness. Which was explained in (1913). (cherry 2016).
While behaviorism began to lose its hold after 1950, many of the concepts and principles are still widely used today. Conditioning and behavior modification are still widely used in therapy and behavioral training to help clients change problematic behaviors and develop new skills. (Cherry