ABSTRACT
The ultimate objective of all psychology is to an understanding of human behavior, complex human behavior, as it is known in present-day society. Psychology followed the lead of more established science in attempting to determine the simplest elements and to construct concepts of behavior as it aggregated and became more complex. Irrespective of the theories concerning the process of behavior development, it is certainly safe to assume that those behavior patterns which manifest themselves after birth are innate in character and they probably have a definite ascertainable relationship to the course of development. J. B. Watson's work on the primary behavior equipment of newborn infants and its development by a process of conditioning is familiar to all students of psychology. Infants are rated in terms of the chronological age at which they attain a certain postural reaction, say sitting or standing, without due credit being given to the process by which that ability was attained.
