It's something that animals can just do. They don't have to learn them.
I believe the answer is: Stable characteristics
Stable characteristics is formed by the combination of various characteristics that would determine the overall behavior of a person.
These combinations are formed over a long period of time, but could be changed if the person are willing to make the effort for it.
Depth perception
Eleanor Gibson and Richard Walk created the visual cliff in the 1960’s to measure depth perception. This apparatus enabled them to adjust optical stimulation with a cliff simulation while keeping their subjects safe from harm. The visual cliff is constructed of checkerboard, a sheet of plexiglass and a cloth.
Locke defended the idea that knowledge is not innate, but results from the way we elaborate the information we receive from experience.
Locke also defended the idea that knowledge is not innate, but results from the way we elaborate the information we receive from experience. The mind is like a blank sheet or, to use Locke's expression, a tabula rasa, on which sensitive perceptions leave their mark. In this way the ideas in our mind correspond to the real things. Of course there is reflection, but it works from the information derived from experience.
Locke's vision seems a bit extreme in my view. I believe that people are born with innate and other skills that come from the knowledge acquired in society and the environment in general. We are the result of our innate abilities and acquired knowledge.
