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- 1Lorenz's study-
- Observed imprinting in goose eggs.
- Randomly divided a clutch of goose eggs.
- Half were hatched in their natural environment with the mother goose.7
- Half were hatched in an incubator where the first moving thing they saw was Lorenz.
- The incubator group followed Lorenz around whereas the control group followed their mother goose everywhere.
- When they were mixed up, the goose still split up and followed the mother goose and Lorenz.
- This is called imprinting, where bird species that are mobile from birth attach to the first moving object they see.
- Lorenz found a critical period in which imprinting needs to take place - this can be - 2Lorenz AO3Lorenz's study involved studying imprinting in birds, and although it has influenced our understanding of attachment in humans, it is difficult to compare birds to humans. It seems that the mammalian attachment system is quite different from the that in birds. For example, mammalian mothers show more emotional attachment to their young and because of this, mammals may be able to form attachments to their young later on in life. Not appropriate to generalise Lorenz's findings to humans.
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