He's simply paraphrasing JB Watson's (silly) claim: "Give me 12 children, well formed, and give me complete control of their environments. I'll make any one of them become whatever I wish: baker, banker, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, or Indian chief."
It is an article of the behaviorist credo. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== ========== Beth Benoit wrote: > > > > I just finished reading another obituary for O. Ivar Lovaas, which > ended with this astounding statement: > > To the end of his career, Dr. Lovaas was adamant that applied behavior > analysis was supremely useful in childhood interventions of all kinds. > > “If I had gotten Hitler here at U.C.L.A. at the age of 4 or 5,” he > told Los Angeles magazine in 2004, “I could have raised him to be a > nice person.” > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/health/23lovaas.html > > I don't know whether this is a result of a stunning ego, > underappreciation on my part, or maybe he was misquoted, like Freud in > his statement about the Nazis. What think you? > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=4446 > > <http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=4446> > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-4446-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > <mailto:leave-4446-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4542 or send a blank email to leave-4542-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
