Imprinitng

Question 1

What is imprinting

Answer 1

A recipricol mental image in the animal kingdom between a mother and an infant based on sight and smell

Question 2

What does the idea surround?

Answer 2

Idea that some animals will follow the first moving object seen

Question 3

Who devised imprinting

Answer 3

Konrad Lorenz an ethologist

Question 4

What is ethology

Answer 4

Study of animal behaviour in their natural environment

Question 5

What does imprinting ensure

Answer 5

Ensures a bond between a mother and infant in the animal world and increases the chances of survival meaning animals need imprinting to survive

Question 6

What does Lorenzes study entail

Answer 6

Lorenz did a study of imprinting on animals and found they are not brown with a ready made image of their parents

Question 7

How did Lorenz do his study

Answer 7

Field experiment, i independent variable naturally occurs

Question 8

Step by step of Lorenz study

Answer 8

1) took a clutch of geese eggs and divided them into 2 groups
2) one group of eggs wheere left with their natural mother and one where in an incubator
3) when the eggs hatched Lorenz was the first moving thing the eggs saw along with the mother being the first thing the other eggs saw
4) eggs started following Lorenz around
5) to test the extent he marked them up and mixed the two groups together
6) the goslings devided themselves up, one following the natural mother and one following Lorenz

Question 9

How else was imprinting tested ?

Answer 9

Tested in laboratory/controlled conditions to test if improving can occur towards inanimate objects