Who was an ethologist that studied animal behaviour?
Konrad Lorenz
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What was he interested in?
how young animals attach to their mothers, and how this gave them an increased chance of survival
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Which animal did Lorenz carry out an experiment on?
Grey Lag Geese
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What are the two conditions Lorenz created?
One half of goose chicks saw him first when they hatched, the other half saw the mother first when they hatched.
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What did Lorenz find about the chicks who saw him first?
followed him as if he was their mother, when adult they performed mating displays to him, and ignored other geese
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What did he find about the other geese?
followed their mother, and performed mating rituals to other geese in adult life
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What did Lorenz conclude?
discovered imprinting, defined as an innate readiness to form a strong bond with the first large moving object a baby sees, the was a critical period to imprint by, long-lasting and irreversible
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What is the evaluation of Lorenz's experiment?
Guiton et al found imprinting wasn't permanent, problem generalising to humans, not critical period but sensitive period
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