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| physically capable of doing. |
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| What an individual can learn to do is therefore limited by what it is ______. |
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| anatomy/physical characteristics |
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| Gardner and Gardner showed that the failure of chimpanzees to learn to speak may be due to differences in _____ than in learning ability. |
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| Another severe limitation of learning is that learned behavior is not _____. |
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| Argued that when experience modifies the behavior of an individual, it also modifies its genes in some way. |
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| Conduced a landmark study with rats that shows differences in learning ability with the same species. |
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| The environment may limit learning ability, and therefore what we learn, by damaging the _____. |
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| Substances that damage nerve tissues |
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| One of the most pervasive neurotoxins is ____. |
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| Head Injury and Malnutrition |
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| _____ can also diminish learning ability. |
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| A period in the development of an organism during which it is especially likely to learn a particular kind of behavior. |
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| The tendency of some animals, particularly birds, to follow the first moving object they see after birth, usually (but not necessarily) their mother. |
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| Harry and Margaret Harlow |
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| Compared monkeys raised with and without a mother. |
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| Theorized that innate tendencies interfered with learning. |
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| The Brelands showed that _____ might facilitate learning in one situation and inhibit it in another. |
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| The tendency of an animal to revert to a fixed action pattern. |
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| The innate tendency of a pigeon to peck an object associated with food even though pecking is not required for food to appear. Behavior shapes itself without being reinforced. |
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| continuum of preparedness |
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| The idea that organisms are genetically disposed to learn some things but not others. |
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| Proposed the continuum of preparedness. |
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| An example of the role of physical characteristics in learning is provided by the difficulty apes had in learning _____. |
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| Harry and Martha Frank found that _____ solved certain problems better than dogs. |
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| Soon after hatching, ducklings become _____ on an object that moves, usually their mother. |
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