Multiple Choice
Why is Watson and Rayner's famous study demonstrating the learning of fear in a young boy unlikely to ever be repeated?
A) Evolutionary psychology has given us an innate resistance to the fear of harmless animals.
B) Behaviorism, which formed the basis of Watson and Rayner's theory, is no longer a viable psychological perspective.
C) There are serious questions about the ethics of inducing fear in a child for research purposes.
D) The child in the initial study was irreversibly damaged from the experiment, and Watson and Rayner recanted their own findings as a result of that damage.
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