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The idea that people are fully formed at the moment of conception.  This theory suggested that it was possible that the sperm carried the fully formed organism and that it was implanted into the egg of the woman. This seems to imply that the father carried the child, gave it to the mother, and the mother carried it while it grew in girth to reach a sustainable size that would allow it to live in the outside world more safely.

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This theory was not limited to human creation, but was thought to be the case for all creatures. Though incorrect, it generated curiosity in others who continued to research how life was formed from the point of conception and on. Aries theories acted as a stepping stone to discovering that organisms were in fact a product of cell generation and not preformation.

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Locke did not believe the theories that suggested innateness or being born with natural knowledge of, well, anything. He hypothesized
that humans were born with what he called a "blank slate", equal to a blank piece of white paper that held no information or color, nothing.

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This theory suggested that one would fill the "blank slate" with reason and knowledge gained through experience, sensory stimulation, and personal reflection over time.  Experiences would come throughout life in the form of teaching and modeling in the home, education, repetition, reinforcement, discipline and praise, and trial and error.

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Locke suggested that one could mold a child to be whatever they wanted them to be through these experiences.  Children were not thought to have any ideas, thoughts, or feelings of their own; they were all learned.  Therefore, a child turned adult was purely a product of their environment.
Lock did eventually shift his thinking a little and acknowledged that children must be born with some innate characteristics, but that not all shared the same characteristics, nor did they share them equally. He maintained that the environment that a child grew up in was the dominant determinant in who they would become.

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Rousseau did not believe that children were born with a blank slate; without any innate qualities. His theories were based on the ideas that children were born with the instincts needed to go out into the world, with supervision only, and explore their way into understanding and reason. He suggested that it was disabling to a child and emotionally harmful for the caregiver to instill their own thoughts, perspectives, opinions, and expectations on them.

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Rousseau suggested that children were a product of discontinuous development and that they advanced naturally in specific stages from birth to adulthood.   A child is meant to go out into the world  and develop at their own pace and based on their own findings through exploration, experience, and desire.  He believed that an "inner timetable" would determine appropriate timing for engaging in further development and that outside forces that encouraged conformity would ruin who that person is naturally meant to be.