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Finding Little Albert: Adventures In The Search For Psychology’s Lost Boy

Finding Little Albert: Adventures In The Search For Psychology’s Lost Boy. Hall P. Beck, PhD Appalachian State University. Simple In Concept But Complex In Execution. Learn as much as possible about Albert. Find an individual matching these attributes. What We Learned: Watson’s Writings.

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Finding Little Albert: Adventures In The Search For Psychology’s Lost Boy

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  1. Finding Little Albert: Adventures In The Search For Psychology’s Lost Boy Hall P. Beck, PhD Appalachian State University

  2. Simple In Concept But Complex In Execution • Learn as much as possible about Albert. • Find an individual matching these attributes.

  3. What We Learned: Watson’s Writings

  4. What We Learned: Additional Discoveries

  5. What We Learned: Additional Discoveries

  6. The Hard Part: Finding An Individual Who Matched These Attributes • No employee records • No patient records. • Watson burned his papers shortly before his death.

  7. The Hard Part: Finding An Individual Who Matched These Attributes • No employee records • No patient records. • Watson burned his papers shortly before his death. • Census

  8. To Find Albert You Must Go To Granada Granada Sharman

  9. Johns Hopkins Hospital: 1920 Census

  10. Three Foster Mothers, A Sleuth And A Grandson Pearl Barger Ethel Carter Arvilla Merritte Kristen Gary

  11. Landmarks in Arvilla Irons Merritte’s Life

  12. Albert Figure 1. Albert at 8 months and 26 days of age. Possibilities of a confirmatory and disconfirmatory analyses.

  13. Douglas-Albert Figure 2. Close-up of Douglas on the left, his age is unknown. Close-up of Albert on the right, he is 8 months and 26 days of age.

  14. Comparisons of Albert’s And Douglas’s Mothers

  15. Comparisons of Albert And Douglas

  16. Comparisons of Albert And Douglas

  17. Epilogue To A Quest

  18. New Discoveries And Two New Colleagues Alan Bill Gary

  19. For Additional Information About Albert-Douglas Beck, H. P., Levinson, S. & Irons, G. (2009). Finding Little Albert: A journey to John B. Watson’s infant laboratory, American Psychologist, 64, 605-614. Fridlund, A. J., Beck, H. P., Goldie, W. D., & Irons, G. (2012, January 23). Little Albert: A Neurologically Impaired Child. History of Psychology. Advance online publication. http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2010/01/episode-114-video-finding-little-albert/

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