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Mary Ickes "Polly" Watson born in 1905 and John Ickes "Little John" Watson born in 1906. Polly was the mother of actress Mariette Hartley.
yes, im pretty sure she did for a little while
i recall that a TV movie had aired sometime after the series was cancelled, & in this tv movie Albert contracts leukemia & dies.
Sherlock Holmes speaks to Watson as if he was Sherlock's student. But then again Watson really is his student--he follows him around on his cases and learns from him by watching him use his deductive reasoning and observation skills. Hardly ever will you find a scenario where Sherlock speaks kindly or with feeling towards Watson. Watson even described him once as an "unfeeling robot set to solve crimes and shun the monotony of life." But of few of the quotes in which a little of Sherlock's inner self shines through include the following: -"Come, friend Watson, the curtain rings up for the last act." -"Watson, if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper `Norbury` in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you." -"[Watson and I] also have our diplomatic secrets." -"This is my dear friend and associate, Doctor Watson--the sole of discretion, before whom you can speak as freely as before myself." -"If you had killed Watson, you would not have made it out of this room alive."
Yes, they are adopted brothers in real life.
Classical conditioning.
Watson and Rayner's study of Little Albert demonstrated some specific fears in life. These fears are produced through classical conditioning.
Little Hans was a case study by Freud. It involved a child who was afraid of horses. You are probably confusing it with Little Albert, a study by Watson and Rayner. In this study, a loud bar was clanged when Albert approached a white rat. This is not classical conditioning, but operant conditioning, as the child is learning by trial and error.
John B. Watson and Rosalie Raynor are most famous for their "little albert" study in which they observed a young child known only as "Albert B." and his reactions to classical conditioning.
Little Albert was a nine month old baby who J.B Watson and his assistant Rosalie Rayner conditioned into having a phobia of a white rat using classical conditioning. Every time the rat was produced to Albert, either Watson or Rayner stood behind him and struck a steel bar with a hammer. Because Albert disliked the noise, they kept banging and producing the rat until eventually Albert developed a phobia. Hope this explanation helps.
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The white rabbit
Watson was a Psychologist and a key figure in the development of behaviourist Psychology. He put little Albert in a room with a white rat. He then waited for Albert to approach or touch the rat. At this point, he clanged a loud metal bar. This eventually lead to Albert being scared of the rat, a fear which spilled out onto other fluffy white things like cotton wool or santa's beard.
The little Albert experiment proved that psychological fears could be influence by classical conditioning. Little Albert, an infant, was first shown a white rat. At first, he was not afraid of the white rat. However, John Watson, leader of the experiment, presented the white rat repeatedly with a frightening high pitched noise (unconditioned stimulus) which scared little Albert (the unconditioned response). After five times, the infant became frightened whenever the white rat was presented (conditioned response). The white rat was what he associated with the fear of the loud noise and was now the conditioned stimulus.
Watson and Rayner's experiment with little Albert had a number of ethical issues. The most important is harm to the participant. Albert was subjected to loud clanging noises and was made to develop a phobia. He also did not give informed consent as he was only a very small child. For these reasons, the experiment would not be performed today.