This question has been explored in the remaining two articles. I think it's interesting that no one ever really knew what happened to Albert. Watson and Rayner conducted their study of “Albert” about 90 years ago. In the article Finding Little Albert the authors tried to identify potential Alberts. Initially, as I read the article, I thought it would be easy to find Albert, based on the dates Watson and Rayner provided in their study documentation. Then, with Albert's date of birth, go to the hospital and find the records of children born on that date. Even if, as I continued to read in the first investigative article, it wasn't that simple. Therefore, I agree with the intense investigation to find the exact date when the Albert studies were conducted. Although Albert's exact age was given, there were no dates when the experiment occurred. In the first article, it was evident that they had done extensive research into when the study might take place. The different resources they had access to were interesting to me. I say this because they found any kind of documentation with a date on when the experiment was used. For example, I found it interesting that Beck and others referenced the letters Watson had sent to Goodnow, including the thank you letter. Also, aside from Albert's actual date of birth, perhaps it was possible that the people who worked in the
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