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3 unusual facts about Little Albert experiment


Little Albert experiment

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.

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One of these lectures was attended by Mary Cover Jones and the lecture sparked her interest in pursuing graduate work in psychology.

Rosalie Rayner

Rosalie Rayner (1898-1935) was an assistant and later wife of Johns Hopkins University psychology professor John B. Watson, with whom she carried out the famous Little Albert experiment.



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