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The Imprinting in Psychology
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The Imprinting in Psychology
Sevval YETIM
20174021094
What is the Imprinting?
Imprinting is that newborn animals develop an attachment to the first large moving object it meets at birth.
This attachment is innate and programmed genetically.
Imprinting can effect the how babies are raised, both in humans and other animals.
Consequences of imprinting are both for short-term survival, and in the longer term forming ground for later relationships.
Consequences of Imprinting
According to Lorenz and Hess, once imprinting has occurred, it cannot be reversed. And if someone leaves the critical period, they can not to imprint.
Critical Period
Filial imprinting is causes children to follow their parents.
For example, in the wild, animals learn to hunt.
In humans, babies learn to speak by copying their parents' speech.
Filial Imprinting
Lorenz investigated the mechanisms of imprinting. Lorenz took a large clutch of goose eggs. After, he placed the half of eggs under a goose mother. He kept the other half hatched in an incubator. The naturally hatched baby goslings followed their mother. The incubator hatched ones follow Lorenz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UIU9XH-mUI
When an animal or human is raised, they consider certain attributes of those who raised them. Often, people desire characteristics of a parent.
For example, if girls have fathers that are older, they are more likely to seek an older man.
Sexual Imprinting
Baby ducks and geese can imprint on the first moving animal or thing they see. A duckling may imprint on its mother or its brothers or sisters. So, ducks walk in line, as they are all leading one another.
Baby Duck Syndrome
Sometimes, baby ducks may imprint on the other species. For example, they may follow to a dog or a human.
Psychologists use the term "baby duck syndrome" to describe when humans imprint on something.
People imprint on the first thing they see. Then, they judge other things by their first thing they see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihh1xBXwt_0