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John B. Watson
(9 Jan 1878 - 25 Sep 1958)
American psychologist who maintained that psychology is essentially the science of stimuli and responses. Learned responses can be acquired by means of conditioning. He denied the existence of any human instincts, inherited capacities or talents, and temperaments. He published Behaviorism, a book designed for the average reader, in 1925.
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Science Quotes by John B. Watson (1)
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 of 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. (1930)
— John B. Watson
Behaviorism (1998), 82.
