ABSTRACT
To see human development aright one must already have an account of the product, the mature human being. It is depressing to see how much of the spirit of behaviourism lingers on into an era that pays lip service to cognitive psychology as its working paradigm. For someone like myself, with a background in the physical sciences, the behaviourist legacy is visible in mistaken ideas about the physical sciences as ideal types to emulate, together with a persistent positivistic empiricism that vitiates a great deal of expensive and time consuming research.
