PSYC-2005EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Tabula Rasa, Child Development, Thymine
18 Dec 2018
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30 multiple choice, 3 short answer (choice of 2) Plato (428-347 bce) & aristotle (384-322 bce) believed that schools & parents had responsibility for teaching children the self-control that would make them effective citizens. Worried that too much self-discipline would siftle children"s initiative & individuality, making them unfit to be leaders. Plato believed that experience could not be the source of knowledge because human senses are too fallible, he argued that children are born with innate knowledge of abstractions (ie. courage, love & goodness) In plato"s view, children"s sensory experiences simply trigger knowledge that they"ve had since birth. Aristotle denied the existence of innate knowledge, believing instead that knowledge is rooted in perpetual experience, children acquire knowledge piece by piece, based on the information provided by their senses. Asserted that the human infant is a tabula rasa (or blank slate ) & claimed that experience moulds the infant, child, adolescent, & adult into a unique individual.
