How much do you play a role in your own developmental path? Are you at the whim of your genetic inheritance or the environment that surrounds you?
I believe both play a role on how you choose to view things in. life and ambition for yourself.
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It is difficult to isolate the root of any single behavior as a result solely of nature or nurture.
I agree. The outcome varies on both a mix of the two things.
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y discussing what we think is true with others who share the same views.
This last part that states we talk about these topics with others who have the same views completely backs up his point of humans rejecting contradictory evidence. We all do it.
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Parents not only influence their child’s environment, perhaps intentionally through the use of reinforcement, etc., but children influence parents as well. Parents may respond differently with their first child than with their fourth. Perhaps they try to be the perfect parents with their firstborn, but by the time their last child comes along they have very different expectations both of themselves and their child. Our environment creates us and we create our environment.30
Completely agree with this section. We all learn as we go through life.
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Watson filmed this experiment for posterity and used it to demonstrate that he could help parents achieve any outcomes they desired, if they would only follow his advice.
I believe that this isn't entirely true. Would the outcomes change once the child is exposed to the outside world and forms other relationships/connections with other humans who may have been conditioned entirely different ?
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