Can Environment Override Biology? Exploring Watson's Belief
How many agree with him. This psychology class is so interesting! Your thoughts?
John 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 him to become any type specialist I might select--doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors."
Do you share Watson's belief in an "all-powerful" environment, capable of neutralizing or reversing biological predispositions? If this is possible, is it desirable?
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Take my son who's never been around his biological father. My husband has raised him his entire life (he's almost 11). Unfortunately he acts and has mannerisms just like his biological father. I can't stand it. The nature vs. Nurture argument we that the nurture would win but it doesn't seem like it.
I think most people could probably be anything they wanted if they tried hard enough, had enough resources to do so or enough time in order to do it. I do not think you can change a leopards spots. We see this in adopted people all the time. Who were never raised by their biological families. But who end up being exactly like them anyways.
Yesterday I went out with my boyfriend went to watch a movie, me and him don't live together yet. but point is yesterday when he was dropping me off his like sleep over at my house witch the mom and dad lives. I said no,
his response was why is everyone deciding or making choices for you and their going to do the same with the baby, when I know that's not true. what he thinks is that my mom tells me not to sleep over. So he left all mad. and I felt in my heart that he went on and cheated on me...
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