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The case of Little Albert demonstrated that emotional responses, such as fear, can be conditioned in humans. Conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner in 1920, the experiment involved exposing a young child to a white rat and associating it with loud, frightening noises, leading Albert to develop a fear of the rat and similar stimuli. This case highlighted the principles of classical conditioning and raised ethical concerns regarding the treatment of subjects in psychological research. It laid foundational ideas for behaviorism and the understanding of learned behaviors.

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