Fear is a Learned Response
Fear is a Learned Response In 1920 a scientific experiment was performed on a baby called Little Albert. John Watson wanted to know if fear was a learned response. He proved a point, but at what expense to Little Albert? It is very easy for us to be appalled by what I’m about to share with you. Do your best to set that response aside just long enough to reflect on how this style of teaching may have been practiced on you and the possibility that it has led you to have perpetrated actions on people in your life that used this style of teaching. Boiled down, I am suggesting that we as humans, teach what we have been taught, in the manner in which we have been taught. The good news is that we can modify our behavior once we become aware of it. Little Albert was placed in a room with all manner of things around him. One of those things was a live rabbit. As it hopped around the room, Little Albert crawled around afte...