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: -Learned behavior is behavior that occurs only after experience or practice. Methods of learning include habituation, observational learning, conditioning, play, and insight learning.