A general school of thought, or doctrine, according to which abilities are claimed to be inborn and not developed through experience. Recent nativist accounts of infant ability treat core knowledge as innate along with ways of interpreting events on the basis of that knowledge. However, they are not so extreme as to rule out a major contribution of experience in refining and modifying the core knowledge that infants enter the world possessing.
See Constructivism, Core concepts, Developmental readiness, Experience, Innate (1), Innate (2), Innate (3), Instinct (1), Instinct (2), Vitalism