innate

Examples of innate in the following topics:

• Nature vs. Nurture: A False Debate

  • Is nature (an individual's innate qualities) or nurture (personal experience) more important in determining physical and behavioral traits?
  • The nature versus nurture debate rages over whether an individual's innate qualities or personal experiences are more important in determining physical and behavioral traits .
  • The "nature" in the nature versus nurture debate generally refers to innate qualities.

• The Origins of Language

  • Similarly, some theories see language mostly as an innate faculty that is largely genetically encoded, while others see it as a system that is largely cultural—that is, learned through social interaction.
  • Those who see language as being mostly innate, such as Steven Pinker, hold the precedents to be animal cognition, whereas those who see language as a socially learned tool of communication, such as Michael Tomasello, see it as having developed from animal communication, either primate gestural or vocal communication.

• Competition

  • This trait, unsurprisingly called "competitiveness," is viewed as an innate biological trait that coexists along with the urge for survival.
  • However, Stephen Jay Gould and others have argued that as one ascends the evolutionary hierarchy, competitiveness (the survival instinct) becomes less innate and more a learned behavior.

• Prejudice, Bias, and Discrimination

  • In fact, there is evidence to suggest that humans have an innate or basic preference for people who are like them, specifically when it comes to race.
  • Despite some arguments about the existence of innate preferences towards individuals who look like we do, there is substantial evidence that suggests most prejudicial attitudes and biases are learned and can be unlearned.

• Tilting the Tests: Discrimination by IQ

  • Explanations of ethnically innate intelligence were fairly common early in the twentieth century, with the rise of the American eugenics movement.
  • Alfred Binet, the developer of these tests, warned that they should not be used to measure innate intelligence or to label individuals .

• Feral Children

  • Legendary and fictional feral children are often depicted as growing up with relatively normal human intelligence and skills and an innate sense of culture or civilization, coupled with a healthy dose of survival instincts.

• The Role of Biology

  • Are Brad's problems really the result of qualities that are innate to women?

• Language and Perception

  • The crucial question is whether human psychological faculties are mostly universal and innate, or whether they are mostly a result of learning, and, therefore, subject to cultural and social processes that vary between places and times.

• Work and Alienation

  • The third is the alienation of the worker from himself as a producer, or from his or her "species being" or "essence as a species. " To Marx, this human essence was not separate from activity or work, nor static, but includes the innate potential to develop as a human organism.

• Power and Inequality

  • Given that power is not innate and can be granted to others, to acquire power you must possess or control a form of power currency (such as wealth, social status, authority, etc.).