Question

JB Watson trained sweet Little Albert to fear his pet rat by making a loud thunderclap noise just after Albert saw the rat. At first, when he heard the loud thunderclap, Albert would cry in alarm. Eventually, when seeing the rat, Albert would cry in fear. In this example, the conditioned response was____________.

Answer 1

fear at the pet rat

Step-by-step explanation:

Conditioned response: In classical conditioning, the term conditioned response has been widely used which was developed by Ivan Pavlov.

The term conditioned response is defined as a learned response or a reflexive behavior towards a conditioned stimulus. The conditioned response is a kind of behavior whose existence is not natural but is learned and is a neutral stimulus previously.

In the question above, the conditioned response was fear at the pet rat.