The Biocultural Basis of Stupidity

James F Welles

Global Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, 2017, vol. 3, issue 3, 63-66

Abstract: The interference of learning with adaptation through further learning is not a uniquely human problem. It is found, for example, among earth worms, which can be trained to turn away from an “Electrode alley†in a T-box-an experimental construct in which the animal reaches a choice-point and must go to one side or the other. Having learned to avoid the side with the electrode, a worm will at first have difficulty learning to turn the other way when the electrode is switched to the previously “Correct†side [1]. In this case, what the animal had learned clearly interfered with its ability to adjust to altered environmental conditions, as it had to overcome the original lesson before it could form a new, effective schema.

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Date: 2017
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