Wow, Chris, you're uncharacteristically "late to the gate." This conversation has been going on for almost a week. I'm curious...Did TIPS get to you late, did your post get delayed, or???
Beth Benoit On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Christopher D. Green <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > 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 > > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72&n=T&l=tips&o=4542 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-4542-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@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=4543 or send a blank email to leave-4543-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
