Human Growth and Development / Unit 4 HGD 0458 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Beyond the Blank Slate
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The idea
The blank-slate view held that infants arrive with nothing and environment writes everything, as in John B. Watson's claim about a dozen healthy infants.
In practice
Watson boasting he could train any infant to become any specialist he chose.
Where people slip
This view misses the biological traits infants bring and the active part infants play in their own development.
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