Giving up Instincts in Psychology

Kuo, Zing Yang

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“…Kuo's (1921) suggestion of a role for prenatal experience has been amply confirmed over the years (also cited in Gottlieb; see Schlinger, 1995 for references on human prenatal learning). And Gottlieb's research has extended that role, testing the limits of environmental influence and the behavioral plasticity of imprinting.…”

Section: Gottlieb's Imprinting Researchmentioning

confidence: 98%

Evolution, Behavior Principles, and Developmental Systems: A Review of Gottlieb's Synthesizing Nature‐nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior

Schneider

2003

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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Gottlieb's developmental psychobiology book provides a base for reexamining the place of the experimental analysis of behavior in the life sciences. His experimental program demonstrating the critical function of the environment in the development of a species-typical behavior helped force an acceptance of probabilistic epigenesis, the acknowledgment that the developmental genomeenvironment system is fully interactional. (Indeed, nature vs. nurture is deader than a doornail.) The repercussions for evolutionary biology and the roles and categorizations of genes, behavior, and environment in behavior-environment relations are explored in light of current knowledge, including specific implications for the experimental analysis of behavior.

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Evolution, Behavior Principles, and Developmental Systems: A Review of Gottlieb's Synthesizing Nature‐nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior

Schneider

2003

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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“…A different and more radical version of the anti-instinct critique was that of Zing-Yang Kuo (e.g., Kuo, 1921Kuo, , 1922Kuo, , 1929). Kuo's primary argument against the concept of instinct was that it precluded an understanding of the development of behavior by substituting the label ''instinct'' for an analysis of how behavior comes into being.…”

Section: The Wedge Between Learning and Instinctmentioning

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Synthesis and separation in the history of “nature” and “nurture”

Logan

Johnston

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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For much of the 20th century scientific psychology treated the relative contributions of nature and nurture to the development of phenotypes as the result of two quite separate sources of influence. One, nature, was linked to biological perspectives, often manifest as ''instinct'', while the other, nurture, was taken to reflect psychological influences. We argue that this separation was contingent on historical circumstance. Prior to about 1920, several perspectives in biology and psychology promoted the synthesis of nature and nurture. But between 1930 and 1980 that synthetic consensus was lost in America as numerous influences converged to promote a view that identified psychological and biological aspects of mind and behavior as inherently separate. Around 1960, during the hegemony of behaviorism, Daniel Lehrman, Gilbert Gottlieb, and other pioneers of developmental psychobiology developed probabilistic epigenesis to reject predeterminist notions of instinct and restore a synthesis. We describe the earlier and later periods of synthesis and discuss several influences that led to the separation of nature and nurture in the middle of the 20th century. ß 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 758-769, 2007.

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“…Schneirla, both of whom came to be a mentor and friend to Gottlieb in the early years of his research career. Kuo (1921Kuo ( , 1967 was among the first psychologists (see also Holt, 1931) to raise the possibility that features of the so-called ''instinctive'' behavior of neonates might be a consequence of experience that occurred prenatally. Kuo pointed out that behavior does not begin at birth or hatching, and as a result prenatal factors could not be overlooked in attempts to account for the nature and path of behavior development.…”

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The dynamics of development and evolution: Insights from behavioral embryology

Lickliter

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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ABSTRACT:The perspective that features of species-typical behavior could be traced to experience that occurred prenatally was raised by Zing-Yang Kuo [1921 Journal of Philosophy 18: 645-664] early in the last century and Gilbert Gottlieb subsequently elaborated on and provided empirical support for this idea over the course of more than four decades of innovative psychobiological research. Although we are still a long way from fully understanding the specific pathways and processes by which prenatal experience can influence postnatal development, Gottlieb's research with precocial birds provided significant insights into the conditions and experiences of prenatal development involved in the achievement of speciestypical perception and behavior. In particular, his elegant series of studies on the development of species identification in ducklings documented how the features and patterns of recurring prenatal sensory experience (including self-stimulation) guide and constrain the young individual's selective attention, perception, learning, and memory during both prenatal and postnatal periods. I review how this body of research supports the view that the structure and functions of the developing organism and its developmental ecology together form a relationship of mutual influence on the emergence, maintenance, and transformation of species-typical behavior. I also explore how Gottlieb's empirical demonstrations of the prenatal roots of so-called ''instinctive'' behavior provided a foundation for his conceptual efforts to define the links between developmental and evolutionary change. ß 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 49: 749-757, 2007.

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Giving up Instincts in Psychology

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Evolution, Behavior Principles, and Developmental Systems: A Review of Gottlieb's Synthesizing Nature‐nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior

Evolution, Behavior Principles, and Developmental Systems: A Review of Gottlieb's Synthesizing Nature‐nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior

Synthesis and separation in the history of “nature” and “nurture”

The dynamics of development and evolution: Insights from behavioral embryology

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