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.
Watson and Rayner's study of Little Albert demonstrated some specific fears in life. These fears are produced through classical conditioning.
John B. Watson
Conditioning (I just learned this in my psychology class)
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.
Classical Conditioning in Everyday LifeOne of the great things about conditioning is that we can see it all around us. Here are some examples of classical conditioning that you may see:1. Conditioned Fear & Anxiety - many phobias that people experience are the results of conditioning.For Example - "fear of bridges" - fear of bridges can develop from many different sources. For example, while a child rides in a car over a dilapidated bridge, his father makes jokes about the bridge collapsing and all of them falling into the river below. The father finds this funny and so decides to do it whenever they cross the bridge. Years later, the child has grown up and now is afraid to drive over any bridge. In this case, the fear of one bridge generalized to all bridges which now evoke fear.2. Advertising - modern advertising strategies evolved from John Watson's use of conditioning. The approach is to link an attractive US with a CS (the product being sold) so the consumer will feel positively toward the product just like they do with the US.US --> CS --> CR/URattractive person --> car --> pleasant emotional response
Classical conditioning.
Watson and Rayner's study of Little Albert demonstrated some specific fears in life. These fears are produced through classical conditioning.
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.
John B. Watson
Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and Robert Rescorla.
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.
Classical condition uses conditional and unconditional stimuli to draw out a certain response or behavior. Ivan Pavlov was the first to use this, and stumbled across it when doing research on the connection between dogs smelling meat and therefore salivating. He soon discovered that the dogs would salivate whenever the doctor that normally fed them would enter the room. Other research proved that in classical conditioning, an unconditional stimuli will produce a result whether it is Pavlov's dogs salivating or Watson's Baby Albert associating rats with fear.
Conditioning (I just learned this in my psychology class)
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.
Hilary & Jackie (1998) with Emily Watson and Rachel Griffiths.
The cast of Classical Brit Awards 2002 - 2002 includes: Andrea Bocelli as Himself - Performer Russell Watson as Himself - Performer
William Heriot Watson has written: 'The physical principles of wave guide transmission and antenna systems' -- subject(s): Antennas, Electric waves, Radio