Who Is John Locke

WHO IS JOHN LOCKE?
- John Locke was born on 1632. He is British Philosopher and Realist views in
life. He’s Theory claims “at birth our minds are like a sheet of white paper
and he called this as “TABULA RASA” that children gain knowledge through
experience and John Locke is a popular Empiricist.
EMPERICISM
Is the main argument for Tabula rasa. John Locke a popular empiricist,
tell us that we are born with no innate knowledge or concepts
whatsoever, but only with the innate capacity for reason. Locke says
that knowledge and idea can only be gained via sensory experience of
the world.
-It philosophical doctrine that holds the view that knowledge is derived from our
experiences. John Locke posits that experience is of two forms.
-All knowledge begins with experience and that mind is like a blank slate or Tabula
rasa.
-Empiricsim means knowledge comes from experience, and so by analyzing our
experiences we will come to know the truth about reality, and nothing should be
asserted unless it can be ratified by experience.
Tabula Rasa or Black Slate

- In Locke’s philosophy, tabula rasa was the theory that at birth the
human mind is a “blank slate” without rules for processing are formed
solely by one’s sensory experience.
-It’s that main, that the human person fills with ideas as she/he experience the
world through their 5 external senses.
-John Locke says that knowledge is demonstrable acquired only through sensory
experience, but that our sensory experience is not infallible.
-Locke argues that, at birth the mind is a tabula rasa that we fill with ideas as we
experience the world through the 5 senses. But idea, Locke means “whatsoever is
the object of the understanding, when a person thinks. In other words, an idea is
anything you experience or reflect on and Locke’s key point is we can only get
such ideas from the senses.
-Our minds cannot create ideas, Locke argues: They can only combine them. Ideas
are thus atomic in nature, and can form complex, unique structures: but the
constituent parts are all ultimately obtained from sensory experience.
Tabula rasa – An absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined

goals. A clean slate. The human mind, especially at birth, in its blank
or empty slate before exposure to outside impressions or social
constructs.
-Tabula rasa is the theory explain that individuals are born without built-in mental
content we are all like a clear slate, we are born neutral and therefore all
knowledge comes from our experience or perception.
PROPONENTS OF TABULA RASA THEORY
Epistemological - proponents of tabula rasa disagree with the doctrine

of innatism, which holds that the mind is born already in possession
of certain knowledge.
-John Locke is disagree with this innatism theory.
Innatism is a philosophical and epistemological doctrine that holds that mind is
born with ideas/knowledge, and that therefore the mind is not a “blank slate” at
birth. Because Chomsky said that children were born with the ability to acquired
language. This is in contrast to, and was contested by, early empiricists such as
John Locke.
Proponents of the tabula rasa theory also favour the “nurture” side of
the nature vs. nurture debate when it comes to aspects of one’s
personality, social and emotional behavior, knowledge and sapience.
- The nature vs. nurture debate is one of the oldest philosophical issues with
in psychology. Nurture refers to all the environment variables that impact
who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were
raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture.
- Because tabula rasa refers to the belief that humans are born with
completely open mind and that attitudes onto the personality. Individuals
who embrace this belief tend to fall on the nature-nurture issue of human
development
HOW CHILDREN LEARN?
ENVIRONMENT-
The more words caregivers use, the larger a child’s vocabulary will be.
Children with lower socioeconomic status tend to have smaller
vocabularies. Language develops better in children who are read to
regularly. A rich social environment helps build language skills.
-The environment has the ability to shape an individual’s mind and experience
serves as a stage of growth, expanding possibilities and gathering new knowledge.
So the words or language hear by the child from their environment will be the
words or language they will be use.
PARENTS
Parents’ Active role is Vital to improve their child’s language
acquisition and development.
Studies show that children who hear fewer words during their first
few years have a tendency to process language more slowly than
children who hear regular and more complex speech directed right to
them.
-Locke was a big on parental involvement, and the parents audit their children to
invest their education and to discipline and correct their children not necessarily
in harmful way but more on how they fix their child, give the correction before it
worst.
TEACHER
-Give students time and space to practice useful phrases and
formulaic expressions, Use the student’s first language and
background. Support the student in continuing literacy development
in the first language.
-Also teacher helps to shape their student’s by language and attitude just pick-up
with positive, if the teacher has positive outlook on life, and the parents have
positive outlook on life, that will eventually shaping the children in that outlook as
well.
What is Tabula rasa in language acquisition?
They claim that child language acquisition is governed by habit

forming and reinforcement by imitation, repetition and analogy. The
newborn’s mind as a blank slate ‘tabula rasa’ is borrowed from the
era of Illumination. Language acquisition is a learned set of habits.
Imitation- The idea that children imitated what they heard around
them. This theory is based on the behaviorism. Theory of feedback or
reinforcement. The idea that parent correction of children’s speech
errors is what causes children to produce grammatically well-formed
utterances.
Repetition- Even short repetitive exposure to novel words induced a
rapid neutral response increase that is suggested to manifest memory-
trade formation. Rapid learning of new words is crucial form language
acquisition, and frequent exposure to spoken words enables vocabulary
development.
Analogy-Analogy thus plays a central role in the acquisition of language, because
children have to develop from mappings based on observable similarities.

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WHO IS JOHN LOCKE?

Tabula Rasa or Black Slate

Tabula rasa – An absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined

PROPONENTS OF TABULA RASA THEORY

Epistemological - proponents of tabula rasa disagree with the doctrine

HOW CHILDREN LEARN?

What is Tabula rasa in language acquisition?

They claim that child language acquisition is governed by habit

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