AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Answer and Explanation: Imprinting is both innate and learned. Imprinting itself is the behavior of a newborn organism to identify and follow another organism or object that appears to be alive, treating it as it would a mother animal.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.