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7.The Monster Study
8. The Bobo Doll Experiment
4. The Little Albert Experiment
- Conducted by the University of Iowa in 1939
- 20-22 orphan children were placed in controlled groups
- First group were praised for good speech
- Second group were told they stutter + speech imperfection
- all children in second group developed speech problems from psychological aspect
- Conducted by behaviorist John B. Watson
- Previously, experiment only used on dogs
- Test subject was nine month old Albert B.
- Showed subject many stimuli, including rabbits to burning newspaper
- Reacted normally, until sharp metal sounds were added to stimuli
- Albert became traumatized, and eventually associated all stimuli exposed to with fear
- Albert Bandura, psychologist
- Conducted in 1961 & 1963
- Two groups of children shown different videos, one group shown no video
- One video violent towards a doll, other non-violent
- Children were let into a room with the doll from the video and given a variety of fake weapons
- Objective to see if children could be violent on their own without influence
Why Children?
5.Shock Therapy & LSD
- 1940s, conducted by psychologist Lauretta Bender
- Gave daily shock therapy to 98 child patients
- Purpose to cure of "Childhood Schizophrenia"
- Also gave children LSD and Mushrooms
1. The Brenda Reimer Experiment
- Believed That Children are innocent & pure
- Would react better than adults
- Do not yet think for themselves
- Clean thoughts not influenced by anything yet
3. The Broken Toy Experiment
- Began in 1965, Conducted by psychologist John Money
- Conducted on David Reimer without his knowledge
- A botched circumcision lead to experiment beginning
- Was raised as a female instead of a male, renamed "Brenda"
- Reimer eventually commited suicide as a result
- Objective to see if children could feel guilt and time dilation
- Children were given a toy rigged to break
- When toy broke, the adult would state "Oh my." and stare at child for one minute
- Children experienced guilt, and most came out to be traumatized
2. The Visual Cliff Experiment
- Conducted by Cornell University psychologists
- Created a visual cliff using glass and reflections
- Placed mother across "cliff" from baby
- Mothers tempted babies to crawl over to them
- Only three out of 36 infants did in total
- Proved that infants would most likely trust instincts more than mothers
6.Experimental Spinal Taps On Children
- Conducted in 1896 by pediatrician Arthur Wentworth
- Purpose to test if spinal taps were painful
- Preformed on 29 toddlers and infants
- Concluded only temporarily painful
- Children's parents unaware of procedures
Top Eight Horrifying Experiments Conducted With Children
By Isa Hernandez