The combination of innate programs and lifetime experience: evolutionary and epistemological approach

The article deals with issues of animal training, lifetime experience and innate programs. The author describes the forms of individual learning: associative, non-associative and cognitive. The article describes in detail the types of each form of learning, such as habituation, sensitization, imprinting, latent learning and others. The learning is considered in the framework of evolutionary and epistemological approach. The study of animal intelligence, mechanisms of learning allows the researchers to get closer to the unraveling of the phenomenon of a human being.