“If we let ethical considerations get in the way of scientific hubris, then the feminists have won!”
Back when science was fun :
Watson, repeating similar experiments [to Pavlov], noted thetransference″ aspect of such conditioning. Having found that the violent striking of an iron bar produced fear in an infant, he noted that he could give a ``fear″ character to some hitherto neutral object, such as a rabbit, by placing it before the child each time the iron bar was struck; he next demonstrated that this conditioned fear of the rabbit was transferred with varying degrees of intensity to other things having similar properties(such as fur coats or cotton blankets).″
“If we let ethical considerations get in the way of scientific hubris, then the feminists have won!”
Back when science was fun :
Watson, repeating similar experiments [to Pavlov], noted the
transference″ aspect of such conditioning. Having found that the violent striking of an iron bar produced fear in an infant, he noted that he could give a ``fear″ character to some hitherto neutral object, such as a rabbit, by placing it before the child each time the iron bar was struck; he next demonstrated that this conditioned fear of the rabbit was transferred with varying degrees of intensity to other things having similar properties(such as fur coats or cotton blankets).″Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change p.11