John b watson

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Classics in the History of Psychology -- Introduction to Watson (1913) by C.D. Green

John B Watson

Character in the canon of Sherlock Holmes Dr. John H. Watson

one of the most famous experiment in psychology that was carried out in the core of the behaviorism school of thought by J.B.Watson and his student Roselly Raynor

In 1920, psychologist John Watson described his infamous experiments on an infant in a bid to show that the human mind is a blank slate. A hundred years on, Antonio Melechi examines the rise and fall of behaviourism, and the utopian – or dystopian – reflexes that it conditioned

Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood.... I'll make it a thief, a gunman or a dope fiend. The possibilities of shaping in any direction are almost endless.

The field of psychology is very different than it used to be. Nowadays, the American Psychological Association has a code of conduct for experiments that ensures a subject’s confidentiality, consent and general mental well being. In the old days, it wasn't the case.