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Yes humans are born with instincts, that is why they grab the hand of the doctor when they are are first born, and if you put a newborn in a swimming pool he/she will swim automatically.

Another instinct is suckling, as in breastfeeding.

I agree. When you think instinct think emotion or impulse. We have in-born impulses. Lust, for example, is an instinct with obvious evolutionary roots.

Developmental psychologists note some major instincts present in newborns: 1) Suckling -- when something is placed near the lips of the newborn, it usually attempts to suckle it instantly. 2) Gripping -- the newborn, as aforementioned, attempts to grab the hand of the doctor. They are also accustomed to grabbing regions of their mothers. 3) Falling -- the newborn, when it perceives it is falling (or simply has the sensation it is falling, but isn't really) it assumes a certain posture that would make gripping the care-taker easy. Some psychologists argue that certain behavioral characteristics of newborns are actually instincts, but aren't expressed by the individual until required faculties have been developed (such as sight and cognitive abilities). One would be the refusal of an infant to crawl over a sheet of transparent glass, which is placed a few feet off of the ground. The infant perceives the depth through the glass and thinks it will fall if it progresses, even if its mother calls to it.

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