During the famous experiment with "Little Albert," Albert learned to fear rats when researchers used classical conditioning and presented a
A) loud sound as the unconditioned stimulus.
B) rat as the unconditioned stimulus.
C) rat as the conditioned response.
D) loud sound as the conditioned response.

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In the Little Albert experiment, a loud sound (the unconditioned stimulus) was paired with the sight of a rat (the neutral stimulus) until the sight of the rat alone (now the conditioned stimulus) elicited fear (the conditioned response) in Albert.

During the Famous Experiment with "Little Albert," Albert Learned to Fear