According to seligman (1970), behaviors are either instinctive or very easily learned, while behaviors involve the formation of associations between events and responses.

According to Seligman (1970),PREPARED behaviors are either instinctive or very easily learned, while UNPREPARED behaviors involve the formation of associations between events and responses.

Seligman proposed the concept of Preparedness. He and his colleagues suggests that people can only possibly learn limited behaviors. They also identified behaviors as Prepared, Contraprepared and Unprepared. These are associations that predict behavior that can be learned intuitively, painstakingly, or what lies between the other two—a behavior learned according to  associations made  between the environment and the response.

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