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Jkov05

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John Watson once said, Give me a baby and my world to bring it up in and I'll make it crawl and walk; 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. Explain this statement as it relates to the socialization process.
 
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The most popular form of religion in the U.S. is Roman Catholic Christianity.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 1, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Watson's quotation is a statement of behaviorist socialization theory. He is saying that, given a baby and the proper conditions, he could make that baby into whatever kind of person he (Watson) wished. He asserts that all individual behavior is learned, that it is a product of external forces acting on the individual.

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