AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Filial imprinting. The best-known form of imprinting is filial imprinting, in which a young animal narrows its social preferences to an object (typically a parent) as a result of exposure to that object. It is most obvious in nidifugous birds, which imprint on their parents and then follow them around.

Detailed explanation-2: -A young duckling during the first few hours of life sees the image of its mother and siblings. This gets imprinted in the brain of the duckling and follows them which is essential for its survival.

Detailed explanation-3: -Filial imprinting is a process, readily observed in precocial birds, whereby a social attachment is established between a young animal and an object that is typically (although not necessarily) a parent.

Detailed explanation-4: -Habituation, imprinting, classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and cognitive learning.

Detailed explanation-5: -Famously described by zoologist Konrad Lorenz in the 1930s, imprinting occurs when an animal forms an attachment to the first thing it sees upon hatching. Lorenz discovered that newly hatched goslings would follow the first moving object they saw-often Lorenz himself.