How does this work?
Kittens, brought up with rats, may never have seen their
mothers kill the rat. These kittens are reasonably likely to get on well with
the rats and even play with them.
Kittens brought up in a more traditional environment where
they have seen their mothers killing rats, almost always develop into rat
killers.
Does this mean that kittens killing rats is an acquired
response? Are adult cats supposed to feel instinctively that they want to kill
rats?
It was felt, at one time, that people reacted instinctively
to certain activities like hunting, collecting, rivalry, co-operation, teasing
and play. This is not an exhaustive list of supposed instinctive behaviour by
any means but it does seem to miss out the key area of desire to do well on eleven
plus papers.
An eleven plus child, chosen at random from a group of one
thousand, may have a mental age of twelve, the social intelligence of an eight
year old, a reading age of fifteen and the weight of a nine year old. How does
a child develop a `killer instinct’ when working on eleven plus papers? Is this
from learned behaviour from the parents? Would a child develop a `killer
instinct’ by working in a class of bright and highly motivated children? If a
child did develop a `killer instinct’, what are the chances of him or her
retaining that drive during the GCSE and `A’ level years? Does a child need a `killer
instinct’ to be able to well on eleven plus papers?
The last thing any one of us would want is a child to be
approaching eleven plus work in a frenzy.
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