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Learning Predispositions

Built-in tendencies that make some associations and behaviors easier for an animal to learn, such as biological preparedness and instinctive drift. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article describes an inborn bias in learning. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Learning Predispositions rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.

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Preparedness (learning), Wikipedia
  • Has Member: Biological Preparedness, Lead
    In psychology, preparedness is a concept developed to explain why certain associations are learned more readily than others.
  • Has Member: Preparedness (Learning), Lead
    In psychology, preparedness is a concept developed to explain why certain associations are learned more readily than others.
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Wikipedia: Instinctive Drift
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Instinctive drift, alternately known as instinctual drift, is the tendency of an animal to revert to unconscious and automatic behaviour that interferes with learned behaviour from operant conditioning.
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