In chapter six the concept of learning is at hand. All of us, since birth, have been learning how to do a wide variety of things from how to walk to how to ride a bicycle. Learning is just that in which it entails a change in an organism's behavior or thought as a result of experience. As a child one of us may have touched a hot stove unknowingly so therefore afterwards we would not touch it if that situation was brought up again. Habituation, which is one of the simplest forms of learning, is the process of how we respond to stimuli over and over and over. Gradually, it comes out not as strong. Without learning our life would be worthless!
Pavlov was a genius scientist who happened to be interested in dogs. In his experiments he measured the amount of saliva that came from dogs when meat powder was placed in front of them. Over time, the dogs began drooling not only to the powder but to the scientists walking up to them and even the sound of their footsteps. This is called classical conditioning which is a form of learning in which animals come to a previously neutral stimulus that had been paired with another stimulus that brings out an automatic response.
Think about it. Have you ever heard the sound of a juicy steak being cooked on the grill and your mouth begins to water or even thinking about something delicious? Also, if as humans, we learned at slower rate do you think we would survive as well?
Learning: How Nurture Changes Us
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Do I think the human race would survive better if we learned at a slower pace? Frankly not because the world is always changing around us, and as humans it is our job to adapt to these changes and ultimately continue survival. The rate at which we learn is the rate at which we adapt to change. The faster we can adapt to change the better off humans will be.