Psychology · History & Schools of Psychology
A topic within History & Schools of Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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John B. Watson
Declares introspection and consciousness off-limits to a scientific psychology, proposing that only observable behaviour, predicted and controlled like any other natural phenomenon, is a fit subject for the field.
20 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026John B. Watson & Rosalie Rayner
Conditions a fear response in an infant, 'Little Albert', by pairing a white rat with a loud noise, and reports the fear generalising to other furry objects - a founding demonstration of conditioned emotion whose single-subject design, ambiguous follow-up and ethics have all been challenged since.
link checked 17 Sept 2026