it's argued to underlie certain interesting aspects of human responses.

有人认为它是某些人类行为的原因
So, I have some examples here.

我举些例子
One example is fear.

比如说恐惧
So, the Little Albert idea--

小阿尔伯特
The Little Albert experiment,

小阿尔伯特的实验
provides an illustration for how phobias could emerge.

说明了恐惧症的形成原因
Some proportion of people in this room have phobias.

在座一定有人是恐惧症患者
Imagine you're afraid of dogs.

假设你怕狗
Well, a possible story for the—

那么很可能是这样
for why you became afraid of dogs

你之所以害怕狗
is that one day a dog came up

是因为某天有只狗向你跑来
and he was a neutral stimulus.

狗是一个中性刺激