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[Your full July 6, Contrast the views of Locke and Rosseau on how children develop. Locke believed that the social interactions and life experiences are responsible for the development of cognition of an individual (Butatko and Daehler). According to him, a child is born with an empty mind. He called this state as tabula rasa. An empty mind means that there is no personality trait present in the child at birth. When he interacts with the society, he learns and the experiences imprint knowledge onto his brain.
This knowledge helps him develop into an individual with cognitive abilities. Rousseau was of the view that when a child is born, he already possesses most of the personality traits that are gifted to him through genetics and biological factors (Crain). His nature has already been defined which gets improved with social interactions and worldly experiences. Hence, Locke supported the nurture part while Rousseau supported the nature part of the nature versus nurture debate regarding child development.
Works Cited Butatko, Danuta, and Marvin W. Daehler. Child Development: A Thematic Approach. USA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Crain, William. Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications. USA: Pearson Education, Limited, 2010.
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