ANIMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION
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Rapid learning that occurs during a brief receptive period, typically soon after birth or hatching, and establishes a long-lasting behavioral response to a specific individual or object, as attachment to parent, offspring, or site
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Describes how individuals in a group can act collectively without centralized direction
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A type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences
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A form of biological resemblance in which two or more unrelated noxious, or dangerous, organisms exhibit closely similar warning systems, such as the same pattern of bright colors
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. Imprinting is a form of rapid, supposedly irreversible learning that results from exposure to an object during a specific period (a critical or sensitive period) during early life and produces a preference for the imprinted object.
Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting is a specialized form of learning that occurs during a brief period in young animals-e.g., ducks imprinting on their mother. In classical conditioning, a new stimulus is associated with a pre-existing response through repeated pairing of new and previously known stimuli.
Detailed explanation-3: -Filial imprinting occurs just prior to the stage in the life-cycle when, for its own safety, the young animal needs to discriminate between its parents and other members of its own species which might attack it. In precocious species this is in the first few days after hatching or birth.
Detailed explanation-4: -To imprint is to mark or stamp something, like with the name of a publisher. It also can refer to any kind of impression or influence. You can imprint or leave imprints-the word is happy as a verb or a noun. You can literally imprint something with a stamp of your initials.