Classic Conditioning

There are many different approaches to the study of psychology. One such is the Behaviorist view. Behaviorism is the theory that human nature can be fully understood by the laws of the natural environment. I recently learned of a man named John Watson who is known as the 'Father of Behavorism'. Watson carried out a classic conditioning experiment with a little boy named Albert by making a loud, clanging noise behind the child's head as the child was playing with a white, fluffy rabbit. Although the child was quite happy while playing with the rabbit, he came to be extremely terrified of the rabbit as well as anything else white and/or fluffy. The act of the child being scared of a generalization of white, fluffy objects is called stimulus generalization. This experiment was a major example of behavorism and  how the natural affects of the brain can be changed by repetition and the right type of conditioning.