Lorenz, 1935

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A level Psychology (Attachment) Flowchart on Lorenz, 1935, created by Amy Johnson on 19/06/2021.
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  • Lorenz, 1935
  • Aim: unknown
  • Lorenz took a large clutch of goose eggs and kept them until they were about to hatch.
  • Found that geese follow the first moving object they see, during a 12-17 hour critical period after hatching. 
  • He took half of the eggs and placed them under a goose mother, while the other half he kept beside himself for several hours.
  • When the geese hatched, Lorenz imitated a mother duck's quacking sounds, upon which the young birds regarded him as their mother and followed him accordingly.
  • The other group of chicks followed the goose mother.
  • If no attachment has developed within 32 hours then its unlikely any attachment will occur ever.
  • This process is known as imprinting, and suggests that attachment is innate and programmed genetically.
  • Imprinting has consequences for short term survival and in the longer term forming internal templates for later relationships.
  • Imprinting occurs without any feeding taking place.
  • Evaluation
  • One issue of Lorenz' study is that it lacks generalisability to humans; mammalian attachment systems are different from that in birds. For example, mammalian mothers show more emotional attachment to young than the birds do. 
  • It supports the view that having a biological basis for an attachment is adaptive as it promotes survival. 
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