Consider again John Watson's famous quote: "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select."
Discuss how this quote is relevant to his work with 11-month-old Albert.
What will be an ideal response?
Students' responses should indicate their understanding that John Watson was a major early proponent of the
importance of experience and learning (i.e., nurture) to children's development. Then, students should briefly
describe Watson's classic study with 11-month-old Albert and indicate that Watson's research emphasized the
importance of conditioning and environmental control to children's development.
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