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The Behaviourists with Donald Clark

Great Minds on Learning

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Is Watson Responsible for the Blank Slate?

The black slate is a quite important concept in psychology. Some people believe children start not knowing anything, and everything kind of has to be put in and written on that blank slate. Other people there believe there are innate capabilities and predispositions. But i think no serious psychologist would believe that it is a blank slate. You might knot goas fara chomsky in saying that you hae universal grammar and so on but there are still clearly harmonial influences. There is an evolutionary legacy in the brain. It comes to language learning, a fish recognition, a whole number of things learnd t it comes to the game with already preset inate patterns,. fero snakes and fulvias

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