Rosalie Rayner

Hey, I'm Rosalie. I was a psychologist at John's Hopkins, assistant to John B. Watson, and was a part of the "Little Albert" experiment. Lived from 1898-1935.

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I am most famous for my use of classical conditioning to convince a child to fear anything furry because we showed him furry animals while scaring him until he feared anything with fur due to association to getting scared.

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Us working with Little Albert!

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I was extremely influential in the field of Psychology because John and I proved for the first time that behavior can be learned and associated, inevitably changing the way people thought in the psychological field.

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I graduated from Vassar College in 1919, then attended John's Hopkins for graduate studies but left before completing that.

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I eventually ended up marrying John B. Watson, my former coworker, and together we had two sons. I even published a book about it called "Psychological Care of Infant and Child", and an article "I am the Mother of a Behaviorist’s Sons".

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We did the Little Albert experiment in order to prove that an individual persons behaviors are something that can be learned, and changed. We were able to get a baby to associate furry things with fear through many tactics. Proving the theory of behaviorism.

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My name is Rosalie, and I was one of the very first prominent women psychologists, working with John B. Watson to prove his theories of behaviorism in the "little Albert" experiment.

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