GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
BEHAVIOURIST THEORIES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -tabula rasa, (Latin: “scraped tablet”-i.e., “clean slate”) in epistemology (theory of knowledge) and psychology, a supposed condition that empiricists have attributed to the human mind before ideas have been imprinted on it by the reaction of the senses to the external world of objects.
Detailed explanation-2: -A famous philosopher of the 17th century, John Locke, stated that a new-born baby is like a tabula rasa or clean slate, which takes on the imprint of everything the environment provides it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Children are born with minds as blank as slates, but they have natural inclinations which include personalities, likes and dislikes. For Locke, educating children, then, entails instructing their minds and molding their natural tendencies.
Detailed explanation-4: -THE EDUCATIONALISTS The “Educationalists” believed that children were born as “blank slates", beginning their lives morally neutral. From this point of view, infants were neither inherently good or inherently evil.