CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

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. Lorenz discovered that newly hatched goslings would follow the first moving object they saw-often Lorenz himself.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In psychology and ethology, imprinting is any kind of phase-sensitive learning (learning occurring at a particular age or a particular life stage) that is rapid and apparently independent of the consequences of behaviour.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Lorenz the two most important characteristics of imprinting are irreversibility (the property that after imprinted by a specific object, the organism would always prefer the object to other stimuli) and the existence of critical period.