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3 unusual facts about Little Albert experiment


Little Albert experiment

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.

One of these lectures was attended by Mary Cover Jones and the lecture sparked her interest in pursuing graduate work in psychology.

Rosalie Rayner

Rosalie Rayner (1898-1935) was an assistant and later wife of Johns Hopkins University psychology professor John B. Watson, with whom she carried out the famous Little Albert experiment.



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