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:

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>
> 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
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> Christopher D. Green
> Department of Psychology
> York University
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> Canada
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> Beth Benoit wrote:
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>
> 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
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