After little albert acquired a conditioned fear of rats, watson wanted to see how he would react to a white rabbit, cotton wool, and a santa claus mask. he was studying whether or not _____ had occurred.
The answer is stimulus generalization. It is where a same response is being provoke after it has been experienced with the given factors or things that stimulates it. It is how Albert tries to make a response out of Watson after he had response to his fears with the use of things that would trigger it or would make a reaction out of it.