Questions like these were mostly answered decades ago, at least operationally.
Broadly, most of behaviour is more-or-less mechanical, stimulus-reponse chains, while some behaviour has a "transmitted" component (aka "culture"), but learning is itself generally of the first order (like how children learn to walk and talk automatically); and then there is third-degree learning: the learning process itself comes to be self-reflexively the subject of culture, and this seems to be somehow the essence or crux of what differentiates humans from animals.
Questions like these were mostly answered decades ago, at least operationally.
Broadly, most of behaviour is more-or-less mechanical, stimulus-reponse chains, while some behaviour has a "transmitted" component (aka "culture"), but learning is itself generally of the first order (like how children learn to walk and talk automatically); and then there is third-degree learning: the learning process itself comes to be self-reflexively the subject of culture, and this seems to be somehow the essence or crux of what differentiates humans from animals.