PSYC 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Depth Perception, Fetus
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An innate or nativistic view can be 2 forms: 1) preformed, 2) predetermined. Innate view cannot account for great variability and change in behaviour. We have averages, but there are a lot of differences among individuals: 96% infants follow the time course of rolling over, getting up on hands, pushing off, crawling, standing and holding on, standing without holding, then walking. If it is really innate, why is there variability if it is determined by our genetics: pure innate view can never deal with this issue. In contrast, a pure learning or experimental view fails to recognize that it functions on non-programmed set of neural elements: we are born with a set of neurals that are put by genetics. It works on some structure that are put into place by biology, which limits us on things we can or cannot do.
