DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Lawerence Kohlberg
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Konrad Lorenz
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Konrad Lorenz, (born Nov. 7, 1903, Vienna, Austria-died Feb. 27, 1989, Altenburg), Austrian zoologist, founder of modern ethology, the study of animal behaviour by means of comparative zoological methods.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lorenz demonstrated the phenomenon by appearing before newly hatched mallard ducklings and imitating a mother duck’s quacking sounds, upon which the young birds regarded him as their mother and followed him accordingly. In 1936 the German Society for Animal Psychology was founded.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ethology. Lorenz is recognized as one of the founding fathers of the field of ethology, the study of animal behavior. He is best known for his research of the principle of attachment, or imprinting, through which in some species a bond is formed between a newborn animal and its caregiver.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.