innate

Examples of innate in the following topics:

• Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality

  • The humanistic perspective of personality theory is a holistic psychological perspective that attributes human characteristics and actions to free will and an innate drive for self-actualization .
  • The major theory of humanistic personality psychology, namely that people are innately good and intuitively seek positive goals, does not explain the presence of deviance or evil in the world within normal, functioning personalities.
  • The humanistic approach to personality holds that all human beings have an innate desire to achieve at their highest level once all their other basic needs are met.

• Nature vs. Nurture

  • Developmental psychology explores the extent to which development is a result of gradual accumulation of knowledge or stage-like development, as well as the extent to which children are born with innate mental structures as opposed to learning through experience.
  • A significant issue in developmental psychology is the relationship between the innateness of an attribute (whether it is part of our nature) and the environmental effects on that attribute (whether it is influenced by our environment, or nurture).
  • A nativist ("nature") account of development would argue that the processes in question are innate and influenced by an organism's genes.
  • Today, developmental psychologists rarely take such polarized positions (either/or) with regard to most aspects of development; instead, they investigate the relationship between innate and environmental influences (both/and).

• Human Language Development

  • Noam Chomsky's work discusses the biological basis for language and claims that children have innate abilities to learn language.
  • Chomsky terms this innate ability the "language acquisition device."
  • However, his research does not identify areas of the brain or a genetic basis that enables humans' innate ability for language.

• Reinforcement and Punishment

  • A primary reinforcer, also called an unconditioned reinforcer, is a stimulus that has innate reinforcing qualities.
  • For most people, jumping into a cool lake on a very hot day would be reinforcing and the cool lake would be innately reinforcing—the water would cool the person off (a physical need), as well as provide pleasure.

• Genetic Basis of Intelligence and Learning

  • Whether cognition and learning abilities are largely innate (a result of genetics, biology, or "nature") or influenced by our environment ("nurture") is a continuous debate.

• Defining Learning

  • Instincts and reflexes are innate behaviors—they occur naturally and do not involve learning.

• Humanistic Psychology

  • The humanistic perspective is a holistic psychological perspective that attributes human characteristics and actions to free will and an innate drive for self-actualization.
  • In addition, The major tenet of humanistic personality psychology—namely, that people are innately good and intuitively seek positive goals—does not account for the presence of deviance in the world within normal, functioning personalities.

• Maslow's Humanistic Theory of Personality

  • He was mainly concerned with an individual's innate drive toward self-actualization—a state of fulfillment in which a person is achieving at his or her highest level of capability.

• Prejudice

  • Research indicates that most prejudicial attitudes and biases are culturally learned and not innate, meaning these beliefs can also be unlearned.

• Additional Sensory Systems

  • If there was a problem with your proprioception, you might fall over if you tried to walk because you would lose your innate understanding of where your feet and legs were in space.