5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 native capacities/equipment
Explanation: native equipment or native capacities I like 'native equipment' However, it's two words. In this paper,I outline the characteristics or sensibilities of the Net Generation and examine some other views of the Net Generation. I then consider the design of optimal conditions for learning by the Net Generation. I argue that learners bring a range of natural, inherent, or native capacities to the learning environment but teachers are able to do little to enhance or develop these native capacities. Learners also bring a range of previously learned capacities. They bring a range of attitudes, proclivities, and sensibilities that teachers can encourage or discourage, enhance or diminish, or enliven or deaden. http://www.academia.edu/4647761/Educating_the_Net_Generation... "The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." -- Smiley Blanton http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/1550 NATIVE EQUIPMENT OF MAN .... and (2) the bodily state of prepared-ness for that reaction. It is clear also that native equip-ment provides for the internal preparation as well as for the overt reaction. Besides sensations, emotions, and reactions, native equipment also includes aptitudes or 'gifts' for certain activities, or for dealing with certain classes of things. We recognize this type of native aptitude when we speak of one person as having a natural gift for music, another for mathematics, another for mechanics, another for salesmanship. No doubt many such aptitudes are complex and demand analysis at the hands of the psychologist; We find resemblances between members of a family in ability to perform tests of an unusual sort, but calling for specific abilities; and, all in all, we cannot escape the conclusion that aptitudes are hereditary and form part of the native equipment. They are often designated as 'native capacities'. http://archive.org/stream/DynamicPsychology/TXT/0000 - 0066....
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Our native equipment has been called by various names. The most common terms used are reflexes, instincts, impulses, inborn capacities, original nature, unlearned tendencies, and unlearned reactions. We prefer to use the term "native equipment" for all responses or possibilities of responses made by the human being that are not acquired by him. This equipment is possible because of an inherited form of nervous organization. Every human being comes into the world with certain neural patterns which enable him to act in rather definite ways. He inherits these patterns from the race, through his immediate ancestors. From our parents we inherit, directly or indirectly, color of eyes, shape of nose, texture of skin, color of hair, and perhaps height and other physical characteristics. Besides these physical characteristics we inherit tendencies toward certain mental traits and capacities, such as abilities in the languages, mathematics, or art, mechanical and musical abilities, or perhaps desires and emotional reactions. There is some evidence that our tempers, moods, or vivaciousness also may be inherited. The nature of unlearned responses, the universality of native equipment, reflexes, capacity to learn, modifiability of man's native equipment, maturation, special unlearned tendencies, gregariousness, play, and their importance to education are considered. http://psycnet.apa.org/books/13416/004
| Barend van Zadelhoff Netherlands Local time: 09:17 Specializes in field Native speaker of: Dutch PRO pts in category: 12
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1 day 2 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 inborn capacities
Explanation: Although I also like Barend's 'native capacities', I thought I'd add this as a separate answer as well. About Barend's second suggestion, 'native equipment', I'd say that although I have seen it used here and there it does strike me as perhaps a little peculiar, and maybe something that might only be used in a – somewhat dated – psychology context.
Example sentence(s):- The functions that have primary autonomy include intellectual ability, perception, and motor activity (motility), as well as inborn capacities that facilitate the acquisition of language and make it possible to plan and initiate goal-directed behavior.
- According to Rogers, the primary goal of life is to (...) fulfill one's inborn capacities and potentialities.
| Michael Beijer United Kingdom Local time: 08:17 Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 6
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