Slothrop's age #2

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Wed Jul 26 12:06:13 CDT 2000



On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Douglas Lannark wrote:

> 
> Yes, I agree that an "Infant" can be up to 18 months, max! "Toddler"
 was an excellent description, pity P. didn't use it.

P was no doubt looking for resonance with Watson and Raynor's
experiments on their own "Infant Albert."  The note in Weisenburger says
that Albert was 11 months old in 1918 when the conditioning took place.

			P.





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