(May 14, 2025 at 1:11 pm)Alan V Wrote: What are "all the implications and inferences " which conditioning used to have which are now considered wrong? Which ones did you think I was implying?
The implications are those summed up in B.F. Skinner's quote, "Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything." And I think you're lightly dancing around that same idea. You don't want to use the word indoctrination but seem to think conditioning is a mechanism for achieving the same end—getting a child to adopt a set of beliefs uncritically.
All that people learn with conditioning is an association, whether it is with a stimulus or with an outcome. Behaviorists are notoriously unconcerned about things like beliefs; they treat the mind as a black box.
