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The Little Albert experiment was conducted by John Watson and graduate student Rosalie Raynor. Watson decided to conduct this experiment in an effort to extend Pavlov's experiment with dogs where he demonstrated conditioning processes in them. He wanted to show that emotional reactions could be classically conditioned in ...

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