AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Who coined the term “tabula rasa” (blank slate) to help explain the impact experience has on shaping an individual? a. Francis Bacon .

Detailed explanation-2: -John Locke, as perceived by your senses. In his brilliant 1689 work An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke argues that, at birth, the mind is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) that we fill with ‘ideas’ as we experience the world through the five senses.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tabula rasa translates to “blank slate.” In therapy, it refers to either the idea that we are solely the product of our upbringing and experiences, or, it refers to the technique therapists use when they themselves become “blank, ” and allow the recipient to project their own needs, desires, and beliefs onto them.

Detailed explanation-4: -Locke (17th century) In Locke’s philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the (human) mind is a “blank slate” without rules for processing data, and that data is added and rules for processing are formed solely by one’s sensory experiences.