Institution: | McGill University |
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Department: | Department of Psychology. |
Degree: | MS. |
Year: | 1951 |
Keywords: | Psychology.; Dogs.; Psychology, comparative. |
Record ID: | 1539112 |
Full text PDF: | http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118924.pdf |
The theory of conditioned fear responses proposed by Watson (cited by Young, 29) has been rendered untenable by recent empirical observation. The experience of "uncanniness" has been stressed by English (5) as being an important feature of fear responses where no conditioning was possible. [...]