Watson said that he could condition a child to fear any object, this was supported when he conditioned Albert to fear mice. Bergman did research which he said disproved Watson's claim when he repeated a similar experiment

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Bergman repeated Watson's experiment using inanimate objects and found that the participants did not develop a fear response, which contradicted Watson's claim that any object could be conditioned to elicit fear. The other options (using adult subjects or attempting to build fear of subject's parents) are not mentioned in the given information, so they cannot be determined as correct or incorrect.

Watson Said That He Could Condition a Child to Fear