imprinting
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- noun
- /ɪmˈprɪntɪŋ/
- Specialized
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impronta
- During the critical period after hatching, ducklings exhibit imprinting by following the first moving object they see, typically their mother.
- genomic imprinting
Conrad Lorenz studied so-called imprinting behaviors and fixed action pattern behaviors.
- Conrad Lorenz studied so-called imprinting behaviors and fixed action pattern behaviors.
- Had to take a swill of beverage there and that if you really want to have long lasting impact to focus on kids because you can hit them at the age of imprinting.
Examples
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Conrad Lorenz studied so-called imprinting behaviors and fixed action pattern behaviors.
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Now these Gosling goslings are following their mother's boots, their imprinted mother's boots, their human mother's boots, down to a pond.
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On occasion, the imprinting does not take.
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For our own protection, this imprinting is irreversible.
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Every human being, regardless of cultural conditioning and family imprinting, experiences these patterns in some portion of his or her life.
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So that's the connection between imprinting and kin selection.
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The young chicks displayed imprinting when they immediately recognized and followed the farmer who raised them.
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Research shows that many animals experience imprinting as a way to recognize their parents shortly after birth.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Imprinting comes from im- ('in') and print ('to make a mark'), like a stamp pressing a mark into something. So imprinting is an early, strong learning that 'marks' a young animal's mind and helps it recognize its parents or other important things for life.