Lorenz's gosling study (imprinting)
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- Created on: 02-05-19 13:04
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- Lorenz's imprinting goslings (1935)
- Aim
- To investigate how imprinting works
- Procedure
- Split gosling eggs into two batches; one with Lorenz and one with the goose mother
- Recorded all behaviour that occurred following imprinting
- Findings
- Immediate imprinting was identified
- When both batches put together and then separated, both went to imprinted caregiver
- Imprinting could only occur between 4 and 25 hours after birth
- Once complete, imprinting cannot be reversed
- Evaluation
- Irreversible suggests biological basis, as learned experiences can change through experience
- Comparative psychology (assumes animals are humans are the same)
- Humans are much more complex and so we can't generalise
- Influenced Bowlby's critical period theory, which has helped to shape childcare today
- Although better to use than humans, still unethical to use animals in research
- Irreversability refuted by Guiton et al (1966)
- Chickens imprinted on rubber gloves but then learned to mate with other chickens
- Imprinting; a form of attachment where offspring follow the first large moving object they see
- Aim
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