Question: In your own words‚ detail ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments with regard to innate and learned behaviour. Feel free to include your own opinion‚ but be sure to justify it. Try to include equal amount of information for both sides. Use at least 500 words for your answer. Answer: The innate verses learnt or nature verses nurture argument is a subject that has been theorized and debated by scientists‚ psychologists and philosophers for hundreds of years. It is a question that can be dated
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The debate over whether or not infants are born with innate knowledge has been a long one. Nativist philosophers such as Kant (1781/1958) and Descartes (1638/1965) believed that certain abilities and understandings about the world were innate‚ whereas Empiricist William James (1890) believed‚ infants were a tabula rasa (blank slate) upon which information is "written". Even today the debate over whether or not infants are born with innate abilities has not been resolved‚ but by looking at research
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Innate Knowledge The theory of innate knowledge is very interesting. I am going to explain what it is‚ the different views that philosophers have on it‚ and if I think that it is possible to be born with it. Once finished‚ you can decide for yourself what your feelings on innate knowledge are. Innate knowledge is a theory that was brought into this world by the great philosopher Socrates. Socrates said that everyone comes into this world with knowledge that they already had from previous lives.
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memorial‚ there has always been conflict. As the world developed so did the scale of these conflicts. This hunger for violence and aggression has been questioned by many psychologists and as a result led to one of the more important questions of nature versus nurture. On the one hand some have argued that aggression is innate and on the other hand‚ it has been argued that aggression is a learned behavior and that our social environment influences us to be aggressive. In trying to answer the question of whether
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Aggression WHAT IS AGGRESSION? Textbook defines it as ‘behaviour that is intended to harm another individual’ HOWEVER‚ there are numerous examples of behaviours that exhibit aggression: murdering for money‚ verbally and physically assaulting someone‚ accidentally injuring someone‚ working persistently to sell a product‚ and many‚ many more Almost every definition that psychologists have tried to come up with for ‘aggression’ can contradict a perfect example of something that is aggressive
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All behavior is learnt-true or false In this paper I will be critically discussing the idea that all behaviour is learnt. But first let me introduce you to the precise definition of behaviour. What is behaviour? "Behaviour is the aggregate of all the responses made by an organism in any situation. It is the range of actions and mannerisms made by organisms‚ systems‚ or artificial entities in conjunction with their environment‚ which includes the other systems or organisms around as well
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Lecture 1 How languages are learned? 1. Popular views about language learning. 2. How children learn their first language: a) the behaviorist position; b) the annalist position; c) the “critical” period hypothesis; d) the interactionist position. Every few years new foreign language teaching methods arrive on the scene. New textbooks appear far more frequently. New methods and textbooks may reflect current developments in linguistic/applied linguistic theory or recent pedagogical
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From where do our innate fears come from? EVOLUTION: Innate Fears: Innate fears are fears we have from birth When geese are hatched in a hatchery they are set aside in a cage and have a cardboard cutout of a goose flown over them‚ they then reach out chirping and begging for food but when flown backwards the mother goose now resembles a hungry falcon‚ the geese then try to hide and stop chirping‚ Humans‚ how you scream at a spider did our ancestors run from an arachnid that was twenty times
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interval of miserably hard trainings and arduous efforts at the very young age. In addition‚ there are a million of disabled children have made great attempts to overcome their wounds and becoming proficient at specific fields of life. Mustn’t that be an innate ability? In this case‚ talent was indisputably made of a person determination to keep learning and acquiring their knowledge. In conclusion‚ talent can either be inborn or trained. Therefore‚ don’t ever afraid if you were born without any gifts
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humans‚ as well as other animals‚ are innately aggressive and this often leads to violence when conflict situations arise. Indeed‚ conflict is an expression of the aggressive component of our biology. Aggression is a fighting instinct directed against people and it often leads to violence when conflict situations arise. To begin with‚ people are prone to use violence because they have inborn learning to it as they used to live in a close-to-nature society where it was the only possibility to
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