AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lorenz (1935) investigated the mechanisms of imprinting, where some species of animals form an attachment to the first large moving object that they meet. This process suggests that attachment is innate and programmed genetically.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imprinting: The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Imprinting is a form of learning in which an animal gains its sense of species identification. Birds do not automatically know what they are when they hatch – they visually imprint on their parents during a critical period of development. After imprinting, they will identify with that species for life.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the critical period, the young imprint on their parent and learn the basic behaviors of their species, while the parent learns to recognize its offspring.