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Imprinting
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A rapid learning process occurring during a specific developmental window that produces lasting behavioral adaptations, most famously demonstrated in young birds bonding with the first moving object they encounter after hatching. Konrad Lorenz's studies of the phenomenon are foundational to comparative psychology.
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Core Claimimprinting is a relatively rapid learning process that occurs during a particular developmental phase of life and leads to corresponding behavioural adaptations 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Imprinting (psychology)
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imprinting is a relatively rapid learning process that occurs during a particular developmental phase of life and leads to corresponding behavioural adaptations
Wikipedia: Konrad Lorenz
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Lorenz showed that this behavior of imprinting is what allows the goose to learn to recognize members of its own species, enabling them to be the object of subsequent behavior patterns such as mating.
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