We often describe this debate as nature versus nurture, although we now have a greater understanding of their interaction with each other ( nature and nurture). In one or his most famous quotes, he declared, “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.” He did, however, admit to some over-reaching, concluding that, “I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years.” History has, however, proven Watson wrong on many counts, and with the shift from behaviourism to a more cognitive psychology, along with advances in brain science and computer modelling, it’s become increasingly obvious that the blank slate approach is woefully misleading. Watson viewed humans as being born tabula rasa, a blank slate, devoid of innate mental content. They are then fine-tuned as the infant interacts with the world.Īmerican behaviourist John B.These systems include those related to object recognition, language, numbers and intentions of others.From birth, humans already have in place the systems required for rapid learning.Blank Slate (Tabula Rasa) views of human development erroneously claim that we are born devoid of innate mental content.
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