Drawing on examples from the key concepts, discuss the extent to which animals and humans have an innate predisposition to learning.

... Drawing on examples from the key concepts, discuss the extent to which animals and humans have an innate predisposition to learning. Animals and humans both have an innate predisposition to learning. This is shown with animals like snakes who are not "reared" by their parents but still know how to hunt. However some behaviours must be learned, this is the cognitive view. The biological view believes there is prepared, unprepared and contraprepared learning. All this will be explained below. Korad Lorenze who was an ethologist found that hatchlings, he work was with young geese; follow the first moving object they see after birth. He called this imprinting. Imprinting applies to animals, mainly birds but also humans. Lorenze conducted a famous experiment to prove that imprinting was permanent and it happened during a critical period. A critical period means that the learning must take place during a set time or not

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