Previous analyses [26] of these data indicate that Leontopithecus and Callithrix species do not differ in the overall propensity to learn socially.
A propensity to learn the religion of one's community became so firmly implanted in the human neural circuitry, according to this new view, that religion was retained when hunter-gatherers, starting from 15,000 years ago, began to settle in fixed communities.
The suggestion that corvids have an increased propensity to learn from causal information is supported by their performance on tasks involving arbitrary or counter-intuitive cues.
As Szathmáry and Számadó remark: "The evolution of language probably occurred in concert with the evolution of many of the other traits we associate with being human, such as the ability to fashion tools or a strong propensity to learn.
And in addition to learning about why lying is good, or why kids have a natural propensity to learn foreign languages, or whether chimps can talk, business executives are taking greater pains to communicate the right impression to customers in a tech-driven world where word-of-mouth can spread like wildfire to affect brand images.
Second, advanced students, to a large extent, also have been self-selected for their ability and propensity to learn biology.
Early learning is the key to avoid mistakes later on, and Ferrari and Chivers (2009a) showed that stimuli experienced by embryonic prey affect their propensity to learn associations with these stimuli later in life.
Run that sometimes-fatal experiment through tens of millennia and what do you get? "Across an array of psychological situations and tasks, adults display a negativity bias, or the propensity to attend to, learn from, and use negative information far more than positive information," states one summary of the research.
In response to the second research question: "To what extent do the characteristics of the social system in the workplace predict the propensity to adopt evidence-based practice?" Continuous learning, empowerment, and system connection were significant at the.03 level or better.
Desire for learning significantly predicted the propensity to adopt EBP (P =.05, R2 =.14).
The propensity to imitation over other forms of learning is one of the major differences between humans and other species and one that has allowed for cumulative cultural evolution.
