Question

In John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner's demonstration of the role of classical conditioning in the development of fears, little Albert learned to fear a white rat. In this study, the white rat was the _____. Group of answer choices

Neutral Stimulus:
Unconditioned Stimulus:
Unconditioned Response:
Conditioned Stimulus:
Conditioned Response:

Answer 1

Neutral Stimulus

Step-by-step explanation:

Neutral stimulus: In psychology, the term "neutral stimulus" is described as one of the different types of stimuli in the classical conditioning theory which was proposed by Ivan Pavlov.

According to Pavlov, a neutral stimulus is referred to as a stimulus that doesn't produces any specific response initially or formerly expect focusing attention. A neutral stimulus is being used in the classical conditioning theory together with an unconditioned stimulus then it becomes a conditioned stimulus.

In the question above, the given statement represents the neutral stimulus.