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Rosalie Alberta Rayner (September 25, 1898 – June 18, 1935) was an undergraduate psychology student, then research assistant (and later wife) of Johns Hopkins University psychology professor John B. Watson, with whom she carried out the study of a baby later known as "Little Albert." In the 1920s, she published essays and co-authored articles ...
The Little Albert experiment was an unethical study that mid-20th century psychologists interpret as evidence of classical conditioning in humans. The study is also claimed to be an example of stimulus generalization although reading the research report demonstrates that fear did not generalize by color or tactile qualities. [ 1 ]
In 1920 John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner demonstrated such fear conditioning in the Little Albert experiment. They started with a 9-month boy called "Albert", who was unemotional but was made to cry by the loud noise (unconditioned stimulus) of a hammer striking a steel bar.
The goal of the experiment was to show how principles of, at the time recently discovered, classical conditioning could be applied to condition fear of a white rat into "Little Albert", a 9-month-old boy. Watson and Rayner conditioned "Little Albert" by clanging an iron rod when a white rat was presented. First, they presented to the boy a ...
Moira Rayner (born 1948), New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate; Peter Alan Rayner (1924–2007), British coin-book author; Ray Rayner (1919–2004), American television performer; Rosalie Rayner (1898–1935), assistant and wife of psychologist John B. Watson; Walter Rayner, British football manager
Talia Rose Shire (née Coppola; born April 25, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Adrian Pennino Balboa in the Rocky series.
Catherine Murat, Princess Murat (née Catherine Daingerfield Willis). This is a non-exhaustive list of some American socialites, so called American dollar princesses, from before the Gilded Age to the end of the 20th century, who married into the European titled nobility, peerage, or royalty.
Ex wife of Sonny Corinthos; formerly married to A.J. Quartermaine, Lorenzo Alcazar, Jason Morgan and Jasper Jacks. Part of the Spencer family. Mother of Michael Corinthos III, Morgan Corinthos, Josslyn Jacks and Donna Corinthos. Grandmother of Wiley Quartermaine-Corinthos and Amelia Corinthos. Originally came to town to get revenge on her ...