OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
DIVERSITY AMONG LIFE FORMS
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Question
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A chick following a lawnmower because it was the first moving object it ever saw is an example of
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imprinting
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conditioning
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trial and error
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insight
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Explanation:
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: -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.
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