Comparative Psychology

Since Lorenz' discovery of obedient imprinting in 1935, the interpretation of this behavioral phenomenon has changed several times. Lorenz himself always emphasized the distinctive nature of imprinting processes (the main variants: filial, sexual, food, and habitat) when compared with other kinds of learning. However, today, we speak of sensitive, rather critical periods, and we now know that secondary imprinted attachments can be as stable as primary ones, thereby limiting the impact of assumed reversibility. Nevertheless, in …

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