AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -For instance, the phenomenon of filial imprinting, first seriously analyzed by the Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz, appears to be a highly specialized form of learning in which a newborn animal (e.g., a chick, duckling, or gosling) rapidly learns to follow the first salient, moving object it sees.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting is a behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see. Usually, this moving object is the mother.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imprinting and subsequent latchment is a primary stage of emotional and neurobehavioural development in which the infant recognises its mother through oral tactile memory for continuing evolutionary survival.

Detailed explanation-4: -imprinting, in psychobiology, a form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object.

Detailed explanation-5: -For example, after birth or hatching, the newborn follows another animal that it recognizes or marks as its mother (filial imprinting). Another example is when a young goose after hatching can follow its future mating partner and when mature it will start to mate with its imprinted partner (sexual imprinting).