Psychology Atlas

How The Mind Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Open Question

Which child was actually filmed as "Little Albert" in Watson and Rayner's 1920 conditioning experiment?

Open Question

Two independent historical investigations identify two different children from incompatible hospital records -- Douglas Merritte (Beck, Levinson and Irons, 2009) and Albert Barger (Powell, Digdon, Harris and Smithson, 2014) -- and neither identification has been conclusively confirmed against the surviving film and case notes.

What would resolve this Additional archival or genetic evidence definitively linking the surviving film footage to one specific infant's hospital record.
OpenHistory of PsychologyWikipedia: Little Albert experiment
Connections

Question On

Source Wikipedia: Little Albert experiment
Sources
Wikipedia: Little Albert experiment
Wikimedia FoundationDouglas Merritte; Albert Barger

Take a Related Quiz

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.