Are all behaviors of animals acquired postnatally?Reinforcements (rewards)can boost the formation of certain behaviors but animals are able to learn without factitious stimulus. For example, the white mouse has psychological map and that is the internal mechanism how they assimilate or accommodate the outer environment. The white mouse still could form the route to escape from the maze without being rewarded grains. Behavior reinforcement might not be effective in all cases. Behaviorism provides us with a perspective to comprehend learning mechanism especially for non-human animals, such as habituation, classical conditioning and operant conditioning, which really exist. Moreover, these mechanisms could be explored, researched and optimized by scientific methods and plays an important role in the lives of animals. They play an important role in human beings’ daily life too, but is unable to explain everything. Wild animal trainer masters the techniques to train animals in a non-verbal way. Human uses similar way to train infants.
Behavior reinforcement could be mutual and interacted. In other words, we are shaped by the object we reinforce at the same time. Teachers learn that rewarding candies or stickers could make children listen to them. Children like candies and stickers, while teachers want regulation and obedience. Teachers train and shape children’s behavior purposely, but children shapes teacher naturally and unconsciously. In this case, who is the actual trainer? Which role do they play in reality? It seems that we are just obeying a certain rules which are doable and could temporary satisfy our needs, and we make it correct – fits the object truth – and continue doing it. Even though certainty create sense of safety, denial of objectivity, absolutism, immutability and invariability makes you deep.
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