Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a r… - John B. Watson
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a r…
- John B. Watson
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train h… - John B. Watson
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train h…
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves. - John B. Watson
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube,… - John B. Watson
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has seen one in a test tube,…
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a … - John B. Watson
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a …
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the … - John B. Watson
Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the …
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to … - John B. Watson
The first aim of a good college is not to teach books, but the meaning and purpose of life. Hard study and the learning of books are only a means to …
The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science. - John B. Watson
The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind. - John B. Watson
No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.
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