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  • Essay / Little Albert Research Paper - 1428

    This issue has been explored in the remaining two papers. I think it's interesting that no one ever really knew what happened to Albert. Watson and Rayner conducted their study of “Albert” about 90 years ago. In the article Finding Little Albert, the authors attempted to identify potential Alberts. Initially, when I read the article, I thought it would be easy to track down Albert, based on the dates Watson and Rayner provided in their study documentation. Then, with Albert's birth date, go to the hospital and find the records of babies born on that date. However, as I continued to read in the first investigative article, it was not that simple. Therefore, I agree with the thorough investigation to find the exact date when the Albert studies were conducted. Although Albert's exact age was given, there is no date as to when the experiment took place. In the first article, it was obvious that they had done extensive research to find out when the study could have taken place. I was interested in the different resources they accessed. I say this because any kind of documentation they could find with a date relative to when the experiment took place, they used it. For example, I found it interesting that Beck and others referenced the letters Watson sent to Goodnow, including the thank you letter. Additionally, aside from Albert's date of birth, it was perhaps possible that people working in the