Is walking an instinctive or a learned behavior for humans?

Question

Is walking an instinctive or a learned behavior for humans?

Answer 1

it has to be a learned behavior! if u stuck a whole bunch of kids that couldnt walk in a room then do u think they would learn to walk if they didnt even know what it was? we did a whole project on it in my science class and this was one of the things that it was talking about. little kids learn to walk because they see everyone around them walking and then people show them what it is and try to get them to do it. theres some things that u would have no idea they would be learned behavior because they are part of our everyday lives.

Answer 2

at least partly instinctive. Much of human behavior is quite independent of .... Nonetheless, it is also clear that speech is a learned behavior

Answer 3

It would be definitely instinctive but also learned as through reinforcement or punishment (just  used in behavioral learning terms) a child then actually learns to walk properly. Observational learning might also play a part in it.

Answer 4

Most likely instinctive at first, and then they realized that it was easier to hunt and stuff by walking.  So then everyone else learned to walk.  I dunno.

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Answer 5

Both. Humans have the instinct to try to walk as well as parents having the instinct to teach walking. However, a child who is never taught how to walk will probably never learn to walk. Therefore it requires learning.

Of course, I'm not a scientist who's studied this or done any experiments, so my answer is mostly based on deductive observation.

Answer 6

I think survival is what is instictive and that comes along with knowing how to manuver your body into getting around.

Answer 7

I'd say instinctive.  At this point, we are designed to be bipedal and as the length of our legs outpaced the growth of the length of arms, crawling would start to get uncomfortable.

Answer 8

instinctive. . . .hold a week old baby up to a table edge and watch his little feet go . . . .his back muscles and leg muscles have to develop before he is able to walk on his own.

Answer 9

we all gotta get up....

i think it would be like not swimming and being a fish...

  

Get on up!

-James Brown

Answer 10

I think it's instinctive but us humans tend to speed up the process of learning it...

Answer 11

now there,s a clever /? i foster and i can ashore you that walking is a learnt behaviour as if you deprive a child of the chance to walk or space they do not learn to walk.....+ my son with down syndrome took ages to learn to walk ..... was so hard for him but at 2 1/2 Finlay managed to get to his feet on his own with great pride in his face