Answer the following about the “mother of behavior therapy,” Mary Cover Jones, for 10 points each.
[10e] Jones’s “Little Peter” experiment helped inspire the concept of desensitization, which was used to treat these mental disorders that involve excessive fear towards an object or event.
ANSWER: phobias
[10m] By associating a fear-inducing animal with positive stimulants, the “Little Peter” experiment aimed to reverse this psychologist’s “experiment” which induced a phobia in a single infant subject who possibly had hydrocephalus.
ANSWER: John Broadus Watson
[10h] Jones conducted a study of this type called the Oakland Growth Study. Two parallel studies of this type contrasted Harvard graduates with people from disadvantaged Boston neighborhoods.
ANSWER: longitudinal study [or longitudinal survey; prompt on panel study; prompt on observational study]
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