Psychology / Unit 5 Psych 0520 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Little Albert and Research Ethics
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The idea
The Little Albert study is canonical in the conditioning literature and would not receive ethical approval under current review standards.
In practice
No informed consent for the fear conditioning was obtained, and the fear was never extinguished.
Where people slip
Both facts belong in any account of it. Citing the finding without the ethics is how the field taught it for decades.
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