Примеры подготовленного обучения у животных описаны в книгах и статьях. См. Seligman and Hager, eds., Biological Boundaries; J. S. Rosenblatt, Learning in Newborn Kittens, Scientific American 227(6): 18—25 (1972); Sara J. Shettleworth, Constraints on Learning, Advances in the Study of Behavior 4: 1—68 (1972), Conditioning of Domestic Chicks to Visual and Auditory Stimuli, in Seligman and Hager, eds., Biological Boundaries, pp. 228—236; Stephen T. Emlen, The Stellar-Orientation System of a Migratory Bird, Scientific American 233(2): 102—111 (1975).