https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy Read the summary of the study and comment on each. Your comment should be your own reaction to the study, and if you think the study is ethical. You need to respond to at least one classmate as well. en-us 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC 2026-02-10 23:03:06 UTC hello@padlet.com klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293078 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293078 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293084 The Little Albert Experiment is a famous psychological experiment by behavioral psychologist John B. Watson. Watson wanted to know if fear responses was a "learned behavior" that children could be conditioned to have. Watson's test subject, a 9 month old boy named Albert, was exposed to many different things. A rat, a newspaper, a bunny, a monkey, and a mask. Initially, Albert did not show a fear reaction to any of these things. 

The next time Albert was exposed to the rat, Watson made a loud, scary noise by banging a hammer against a pipe. Naturally, the child began to cry from hearing the loud noise.  After repeatedly pairing the white rat with the loud noise, Albert began to expect a frightening noise whenever he saw the white rate. Soon, Albert began to cry simply after seeing the rat.]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293084 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293087  "The instant the rat was shown, the baby began to cry. Almost instantly he turned sharply to the left, fell over on [his] left side, raised himself on all fours and began to crawl away so rapidly that he was caught with difficulty before reaching the edge of the table."]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293087 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293092 After a long search for the baby in the Little Albert experiments, it was discovered that the child died at age 6. In 2012, it was reported that he was not the healthy, normal child Watson described in his 1920 experiment. They presented convincing evidence that Watson knew about and deliberately concealed the boy's neurological condition. These findings not only cast a shadow over Watson's legacy, but they also deepened the ethical and moral issues of this well-known experiment.]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293092 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293096 After reading, create your own post Talk about your reaction and thoughts about the study: this is your opinion. Explain your reaction to the study. Then examine if you think the study broke any ethical guidelines, if so, which guidelines did it break? You also must respond to another classmates comment. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293096 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293101 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293101 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293108 Milgram wanted to conduct an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram (1963) examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II, Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just following orders from their superiors. 

In Milgram's experiment, there was the "Experimenter" (this was the psychologist who knew what was happening in the study). The "Subject" (this was the unsuspecting test subject) and the Fake Test Subject (an actor). The Experimenter told the Subject that he would ask questions to the Fake Test Subject. Whenever the Fake Test Subject got the question incorrect, the Subject had to deliver him with an electric shock. With each wrong question, the strength of the shock increased. The highest shocks would have been fatal. However, no one was getting shocked, and the Subject was the only person who believed that the experiment was real. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293108 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293112 Milgram was right about his prediction of the power of obedience. Although the subject thought that they were giving deadly amount of shocks, they rarely stopped. When they did push back, the Experimenter (the psychologist) told them they had to continue, and that they couldn't stop. Certain Subjects grew more and more emotionally distressed, but they continued to shock the fake test subject. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293112 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293114 After reading, create your own post Talk about your reaction and thoughts about the study: this is your opinion. Explain your reaction to the study. Then examine if you think the study broke any ethical guidelines, if so, which guidelines did it break? You also must respond to another classmates comment. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293114 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293116 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293116 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293121 Wendall Johnson believed that stuttering was a "learned behavior", and only occurred in children who's parents criticized their speech. Johnson performed his experiment on 22 orphans. Half of the children received positive speech therapy, praising the fluency of their speech, and the other half, negative speech therapy, belittling the children for speech imperfections. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293121 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293128 Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects, and some retained speech problems for the rest of their lives. It was dubbed the "Monster Study" as some of Johnson's peers were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to confirm a hypothesis. The experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson's reputation would be tarnished. On 17 August 2007, seven of the orphan children were awarded a total of $1.2M by the State of Iowa for lifelong psychological and emotional scars caused by six months of torment during the University of Iowa experiment.]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293128 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293134 After reading, create your own post Talk about your reaction and thoughts about the study: this is your opinion. Explain your reaction to the study. Then examine if you think the study broke any ethical guidelines, if so, which guidelines did it break? You also must respond to another classmates comment. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293134 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293140 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293140 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293150 From 1983 psychologist Keith H. Nuechterlein and psychiatrist Michael Gitlin from the UCLA Medical Center began a study into the mental processes of schizophrenia. Specifically, they were looking into the ways in which sufferers of the mental disorder relapse and were trying to find out if there are any predictors of psychosis. To achieve this, they had schizophrenics, from a group of hundreds involved in the program, intentionally taken off their medication. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293150 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293164 Many patients responded poorly to suddenly being taken off of their medications. In 1991  former program participant Antonio Lamadrid killed himself by jumping from nine floors up – despite having been open about his suicidal state of mind and supposedly under the study’s watch.]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293164 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293167 Many families who were involved in the experiment have sued and argued that their family participant did not know what would be happening in the study. As a result, in 2005 a judge ruled that California had to tighten up their ethics laws. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293167 klapfelbeck https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293173 After reading, create your own post Talk about your reaction and thoughts about the study: this is your opinion. Explain your reaction to the study. Then examine if you think the study broke any ethical guidelines, if so, which guidelines did it break? You also must respond to another classmates comment. ]]> 2020-09-25 14:07:57 UTC https://padlet.com/klapfelbeck/yf5e2pz6bkk7a7yy/wish/779293173