Imprinting Flashcards

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1
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Lorenz studied

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imprinting in Geese

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2
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Lorenz study date

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1935

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3
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what did Lorenz find?

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Geese automatically ‘attach’ to the first moving thing they see after hatching and follow it everywhere

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4
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Lorenz randomly divided a clutch of goose eggs into

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two groups

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5
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he left one group with

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the mother

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6
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he put one group in

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an incubator

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7
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incubator eggs:

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the geese followed him around exactly the same way the other goslings followed their mother

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Lorenz put both groups together and found that

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the birds split back into their groups to find their ‘mothers’

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9
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after further experiments, Lorenz determined that imprinting was most likely

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13 to 16 hours after hatching

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10
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Lorenz concluded that imprinting happened during the

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critical period

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11
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imprinting is a

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fast, automatic process

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12
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after the critical period was over

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it was too late for the young birds to ever imprint

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13
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it’s unlikely to occur in

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humans

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14
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human attachment takes

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longer to develop

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15
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humans don’t automatically attach to

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particular things

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16
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what is more important to humans

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quality care