In psychology, some basic explanations of behaviourism contend that there is no innate knowledge but recognise learning. To behaviourists, aspirations or goals are not required to explain human psychology because they are just a concept. These behavioural mechanisms could apply to a kind of response mechanism or any species. However, these basic behaviourist ideas demonstrate misunderstandings.

Behaviour originates from minds. Without innate thinking and basic knowledge, mere learned skills cannot lead directly to right or wrong actions. In addition, aspirations and goals are required to explain human psychology. Therefore, some mental concepts about objects and thoughts can produce a correct judgement on the right or wrong mental behaviour.

In truth, evidence shows that innate knowledge and desires do exist, such as language learning, development of preference and understanding of material objects. A healthy mindset has innate and built-in mental systems. However, there has been controversy regarding this issue in psychology. Hereditary genes, learned knowledge and innate desires all facilitate the maturation of the structure of behavioural awareness and can develop into a certain condition.

In psychology, some believe that people's knowledge is innate while others believe that it's learned. However, to understand a mental state scientifically, one needs to resort to unobservable thoughts and behaviours. One can explain intelligent behaviour in terms of internal mechanisms and internal representations.

When people get into a situation that they can barely understand or observe, they will do things contrary to their mental consciousness. Instead they will turn to behavioural consciousness and reinforce the implementation of certain thinking.